From: Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:10:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Revert r42719, because the isinstance() check wasn't redundant; formatting a
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~109
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4a26633e0e4ba756794e753cc0dec20535bb412a;p=python

Revert r42719, because the isinstance() check wasn't redundant; formatting a
string exception was causing a TypeError.
---

diff --git a/Lib/traceback.py b/Lib/traceback.py
index 497190656f..d4a40114ea 100644
--- a/Lib/traceback.py
+++ b/Lib/traceback.py
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ def format_exception_only(etype, value):
     """
     list = []
     if (type(etype) == types.ClassType
-        or issubclass(etype, Exception)):
+        or (isinstance(etype, type) and issubclass(etype, Exception))):
         stype = etype.__name__
     else:
         stype = etype