Merge dfc0374 into 40467ee

CHANGES.rst

@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ Unreleased
 * The file for ModActions (praw/models/modaction.py) has been moved to
   praw/models/mod_action.py and the previous has been Deprecated.
 
+**Removed**
+
+* Converting :class:`.APIException` to string will no longer escape unicode
+  characters.
+
 6.4.0 (2019/09/21)
 ------------------
 

praw/exceptions.py

@@ -20,18 +20,10 @@ def __init__(self, error_type, message, field):
         :param error_type: The error type set on Reddit's end.
         :param message: The associated message for the error.
         :param field: The input field associated with the error if available.
-
-        .. note:: Calling ``str()`` on the instance returns
-            ``unicode_escape``-d ASCII string because the message may be
-            localized and may contain UNICODE characters. If you want a
-            non-escaped message, access the ``message`` attribute on
-            the instance.
-
         """
-        error_str = u"{}: '{}'".format(error_type, message)
+        error_str = "{}: '{}'".format(error_type, message)
         if field:
-            error_str += u" on field '{}'".format(field)
-        error_str = error_str.encode("unicode_escape").decode("ascii")
+            error_str += " on field '{}'".format(field)
 
         super().__init__(error_str)
         self.error_type = error_type

tests/integration/models/reddit/test_widgets.py

@@ -975,4 +975,3 @@ def test_inequality(self):
             assert len(widgets.sidebar) >= 2
         assert widgets.sidebar[0] != widgets.sidebar[1]
         assert widgets.sidebar[0] != widgets.sidebar[1].id
-        assert u"\xf0\x9f\x98\x80" != widgets.sidebar[0]  # for python 2

tests/unit/test_exceptions.py

@@ -23,14 +23,6 @@ def test_str(self):
             "BAD_SOMETHING: 'invalid something' on field 'some_field'"
         )
 
-    def test_str_for_localized_error_string(self):
-        exception = APIException("RATELIMIT", u"実行回数が多すぎます", u"フィールド")
-        assert str(exception) == (
-            "RATELIMIT: '\\u5b9f\\u884c\\u56de\\u6570\\u304c\\u591a"
-            "\\u3059\\u304e\\u307e\\u3059' on field "
-            "'\\u30d5\\u30a3\\u30fc\\u30eb\\u30c9'"
-        )
-
 
 class TestClientException:
     def test_inheritance(self):