From b2734175642d84caf37ae792d6656bb26fbe964b 2012-05-12 20:42:45
From: Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-05-12 20:42:45
Subject: [PATCH] Tweak description of failure.

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diff --git a/IPython/core/magic.py b/IPython/core/magic.py
index d2b8f47..c6170f1 100644
--- a/IPython/core/magic.py
+++ b/IPython/core/magic.py
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ Currently the magic system has the following functions:\n"""
                     vstr = unicode(var).encode(DEFAULT_ENCODING,
                                                'backslashreplace')
                 except:
-                    vstr = "<object with id %d (repr failed)>" % id(var)
+                    vstr = "<object with id %d (str() failed)>" % id(var)
                 vstr = vstr.replace('\n','\\n')
                 if len(vstr) < 50:
                     print vstr