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| -rw-r--r-- | dns/exception.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/dns/exception.py b/dns/exception.py index db6ef6e..575cebe 100644 --- a/dns/exception.py +++ b/dns/exception.py @@ -17,7 +17,12 @@ class DNSException(Exception): """Abstract base class shared by all dnspython exceptions.""" - pass + def __init__(self, *args): + if args: + super(DNSException, self).__init__(*args) + else: + # doc string is better implicit message than empty string + super(DNSException, self).__init__(self.__doc__) class FormError(DNSException): """DNS message is malformed.""" |