Exceptions and unicode messages

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Mar 21, 6:03 am, Tuomas <tuomas.vesteri... at pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> This works:
>  >>> raise StandardError(u'Wrong type')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> StandardError: Wrong type
>
> but don't in Finnish:
>  >>> raise StandardError(u'Väärä tyyppi')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> StandardError>>>
>  >>>
>
> Any solution in Python?
>
> TV

When I do this, mine says "StandardError: <unprintable StandardError
object>" on both Python 2.4 and 2.5. I tried setting them to unicode,
but that didn't help. One way around this may be to subclass the
errors you want and do some custom processing that way.

Mike