From 24c274f5dc2f2f9ebe6d3c9ee087b80d40bd49b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:14:09 +0000
Subject: Patch #860326: traceback.format_exception_only() now prepends the
 exception's module name to non-builtin exceptions, like the interpreter
 itself does.

---
 Lib/test/test_traceback.py | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Lib/traceback.py           |  6 +++++-
 Misc/NEWS                  |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
index 22c0456..26ab7dc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_traceback.py
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ from test.test_support import run_unittest, is_jython
 
 import traceback
 
+class TbError(Exception):
+    pass
+
 class TracebackCases(unittest.TestCase):
     # For now, a very minimal set of tests.  I want to be sure that
     # formatting of SyntaxErrors works based on changes for 2.1.
@@ -103,6 +106,24 @@ def test():
             import sys
             sys.exc_traceback.__members__
 
+    def raise_tberror(self):
+        raise TbError
+
+    def raise_typeerror(self):
+        raise TypeError
+
+    def test_modulename(self):
+        # Bug 860326: format_exception_only should prepend module name
+        # to exceptions not in "exceptions", like PyErr_Print does.
+        err = self.get_exception_format(self.raise_tberror, TbError)
+        self.assertEquals(len(err), 1)
+        self.assert_(err[0] == '__main__.TbError\n' or
+                     err[0] == 'test.test_traceback.TbError\n')
+
+        err = self.get_exception_format(self.raise_typeerror, TypeError)
+        self.assertEquals(err[0], 'TypeError\n')
+
+
 def test_main():
     run_unittest(TracebackCases)
 
diff --git a/Lib/traceback.py b/Lib/traceback.py
index 454eb1b..56a87dc 100644
--- a/Lib/traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/traceback.py
@@ -158,8 +158,12 @@ def format_exception_only(etype, value):
     """
     list = []
     if (type(etype) == types.ClassType
-        or (isinstance(etype, type) and issubclass(etype, Exception))):
+        or (isinstance(etype, type) and issubclass(etype, BaseException))):
         stype = etype.__name__
+        if not hasattr(etype, '__module__'):
+            stype = '<unknown>.' + stype
+        elif etype.__module__ != 'exceptions':
+            stype = etype.__module__ + '.' + stype
     else:
         stype = etype
     if value is None:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1e242d0..5ee249f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- Patch #860326: traceback.format_exception_only() now prepends the
+  exception's module name to non-builtin exceptions, like the interpreter
+  itself does.
+
 - SimpleXMLRPCServer relied on the fcntl module, which is unavailable on
   Windows. Bug #1469163.
 
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