[issue41478] Empty representation of AssertionError

[Rémi Lapeyre]

Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lapeyre at henki.fr> added the comment:

> That's a solution, except you must know ahead of time this issue exists.

If we changed str(e) to make it the same as repr(e), there would be no way to get only the message. str(e) returns the message so if the message given was empty (or no message was given) you get an empty string. This cannot be changed without breaking a lot of code.

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versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.9

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