From d95a421694ade78dbe332a7becb8fd492bd2a01c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bert JW Regeer <bertjw@regeer.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:28:55 -0700
Subject: Test to verify that httpexc.detail may be non-str

---
 pyramid/tests/test_httpexceptions.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pyramid/tests/test_httpexceptions.py b/pyramid/tests/test_httpexceptions.py
index 224fa4cf0..e2d463008 100644
--- a/pyramid/tests/test_httpexceptions.py
+++ b/pyramid/tests/test_httpexceptions.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import unittest
 
 from pyramid.compat import (
     bytes_,
+    string_types,
     text_,
     )
 
@@ -364,6 +365,11 @@ class TestHTTPException(unittest.TestCase):
         body = list(exc(environ, start_response))[0]
         self.assertEqual(body, b'200 OK\n\n/La Pe\xc3\xb1a')
 
+    def test_allow_detail_non_str(self):
+        exc = self._makeOne(detail={'error': 'This is a test'})
+        self.assertIsInstance(exc.__str__(), string_types)
+
+
 class TestRenderAllExceptionsWithoutArguments(unittest.TestCase):
     def _doit(self, content_type):
         from pyramid.httpexceptions import status_map
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From 309e6be0e83b5ed08f954c7dd66c5e8cf959a006 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bert JW Regeer <bertjw@regeer.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:32:03 -0700
Subject: stringify self.detail in case it is not a string

---
 pyramid/httpexceptions.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyramid/httpexceptions.py b/pyramid/httpexceptions.py
index a22b088c6..1f3934fdc 100644
--- a/pyramid/httpexceptions.py
+++ b/pyramid/httpexceptions.py
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ ${body}''')
             del self.content_length
 
     def __str__(self):
-        return self.detail or self.explanation
+        return str(self.detail) if self.detail else self.explanation
 
     def _json_formatter(self, status, body, title, environ):
         return {'message': body,
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From 564b63771ae370fafe059c5cf8e4a6bd7a1a5853 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bert JW Regeer <bertjw@regeer.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:37:52 -0700
Subject: Update CHANGES.txt for #2951

---
 CHANGES.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 218fea289..59a733bcd 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Features
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
 
+- HTTPException's accepts a detail kwarg that may be used to pass additional
+  details to the exception. You may now pass objects so long as they have a
+  valid __str__ method. See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2951 
+
 Deprecations
 ------------
 
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