Issue #7427: improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index c5e600c..43c8797 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -1236,6 +1236,8 @@ class ResponseNotReady(ImproperConnectionState):
 
 class BadStatusLine(HTTPException):
     def __init__(self, line):
+        if not line:
+            line = repr(line)
         self.args = line,
         self.line = line
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index c0c12e7..107b904 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ class BasicTest(TestCase):
         resp = httplib.HTTPResponse(sock)
         self.assertRaises(httplib.BadStatusLine, resp.begin)
 
+    def test_bad_status_repr(self):
+        exc = httplib.BadStatusLine('')
+        self.assertEquals(repr(exc), '''BadStatusLine("\'\'",)''')
+
     def test_partial_reads(self):
         # if we have a lenght, the system knows when to close itself
         # same behaviour than when we read the whole thing with read()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ee77d5d..715a346 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #1537721: Add a writeheader() method to csv.DictWriter.
 
+- Issue #7427: improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
+
 Extension Modules
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