Simple unicode-safe version of str(exception)?

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Martin v. Löwis writes:

>> Should I report this as a bug? I suspect it's a misfeature.
>
> Please no. There isn't much that can be done about it, IMO.

One could give Exception a __unicode__ method.  On the other hand,
this kind of conversion of an exception to something printable is a
quite ugly kludge anyway in my opinion, so it needn't special
support.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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