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authorJohn Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>2014-04-18 16:05:21 -0400
committerJohn Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>2014-04-18 16:05:21 -0400
commit4b2ad757e3ba22badde0e964d8e9bbb4e51b5105 (patch)
treecaf5b0dbf5d2d7cf232edbb78530b12698865837
parent2e0275500c49b0227c564772fe41e99d21392026 (diff)
downloadnose-4b2ad757e3ba22badde0e964d8e9bbb4e51b5105.tar.gz
Fix a traceback when using string exceptions.
We need to check that the first argument to `issubclass()` is a class before using it, since we have the possibility that it's a string.
-rw-r--r--nose/result.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nose/result.py b/nose/result.py
index 1267ba2..f974a14 100644
--- a/nose/result.py
+++ b/nose/result.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class TextTestResult(_TextTestResult):
def _exc_info_to_string(self, err, test=None):
# 2.7 skip compat
from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
- if issubclass(err[0], SkipTest):
+ if isclass(err[0]) and issubclass(err[0], SkipTest):
return str(err[1])
# 2.3/2.4 -- 2.4 passes test, 2.3 does not
try: