From 7ed3e29723cad990e41114954692fb50e682ac86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:37:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix error message for invalid curve name

---
 Modules/_ssl.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c
index ed4bbfd6d3..5518032b26 100644
--- a/Modules/_ssl.c
+++ b/Modules/_ssl.c
@@ -2855,8 +2855,12 @@ set_ecdh_curve(PySSLContext *self, PyObject *name)
     }
     nid = OBJ_sn2nid(name_bytes);
     if (nid == 0) {
+        PyObject *r = PyObject_Repr(name);
+        if (!r)
+            return NULL;
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
-                     "unknown elliptic curve name %R", name);
+                     "unknown elliptic curve name %s", PyString_AS_STRING(r));
+        Py_DECREF(r);
         return NULL;
     }
     key = EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name(nid);
-- 
2.50.1