From 992ae9ccc6fabe660e3c02c27ab840338b8d90c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:58:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Properly sanitize the value in the error report

---
 iotop/ui.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/iotop/ui.py b/iotop/ui.py
index 5fed3b7..f0b5610 100644
--- a/iotop/ui.py
+++ b/iotop/ui.py
@@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ class IOTopUI(object):
                     exc_type, value, traceback = sys.exc_info()
                     value = '%s win:%s i:%d line:%s' % \
                                        (value, self.win.getmaxyx(), i, lines[i])
-                    raise exc_type, value.encode('string_escape'), traceback
+                    value = str(value).encode('string_escape')
+                    raise exc_type, value, traceback
             self.win.refresh()
 
 def run_iotop_window(win, options):
-- 
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