From 535d872cab805ca510fa71b4f085cb34199f15b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:17:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Information-gathering and robustitude.

---
 src/registry.py | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/registry.py b/src/registry.py
index 6f5fd696d..8983a4e95 100644
--- a/src/registry.py
+++ b/src/registry.py
@@ -98,13 +98,22 @@ def close(registry, filename, annotated=True, helpOnceOnly=False):
                         try:
                             original = value.value
                             value.value = value._default
-                            lines.append('# Default value: %s\n' % value)
+                            try:
+                                s = str(value)
+                            except Exception, e:
+                                s = 'Error converting to string: %s' % \
+                                    utils.exnToString(e)
+                            lines.append('# Default value: %s\n' % s)
                         finally:
                             value.value = original
                 lines.append('###\n')
                 fd.writelines(lines)
         if hasattr(value, 'value'): # This lets us print help for non-valued.
-            fd.write('%s: %s\n' % (name, value))
+            try:
+                s = str(value)
+            except Exception, e:
+                s = 'Error converting to string: %s' % utils.exnToString(e)
+            fd.write('%s: %s\n' % (name, s))
     fd.close()
 
 def isValidRegistryName(name):