simpler exception printing

pisi-cli

@@ -52,16 +52,10 @@ Please file a bug report. (http://bugs.uludag.org.tr)"""))
         show_traceback = ctx.get_option('debug')
         ui.error(_("System Error. Program Terminated."))
 
-    # NB: we know this breaks latin-1, it was added by meren
-    # to circumvent turkish errors when printing python exceptions
-    v = ''
-    for e in value.args:
-        v += str(e) + '\n'
-
     if ctx.get_option('debug'):
-        ui.error("%s: %s" % (exception, v))
+        ui.error(u"%s: %s" % (exception, value))
     else:
-         ui.error(v)
+         ui.error(unicode(value))
 
     ui.info(_("Please use 'pisi help' for general help."))
 

pisi/__init__.py

@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ __all__ = [ 'api', 'config', 'packagedb', 'installdb', 'search' ]
 class Exception(Exception):
     """Class of exceptions that must be caught and handled within PISI"""
     def __str__(self):
-        s = ''
+        s = u''
         for x in self.args:
             if s != '':
                 s += '\n'
-            s += x.encode('utf-8')
+            s += unicode(x)
         return s
 
 class Error(Exception):