On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:03:37AM -0500, Eric Mangold wrote:

When dealing with normal Failure instances, a simple str(aFailure.value) will produce an acceptably short error message. However, a CopiedFailure's value attr is "". str(aCopiedFailure) is the whole giant traceback, unsuitable for a gui message box.

CopiedFailure probably doesn't have that information available separately. It's written such that in the serialization side, it just sends the string traceback rather than all the frames, etc, but I must've missed sending the actual exception message separately. You can report a bug on the tracker and assign it to me, but I encourage you to try to patch it, as I've been swamped lately :) -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted Project ---------+ http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix.twistd/