From 8e54f7dcce45ff268ee9d3bb4368b8858d7d43cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:52:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed test_dates failures in older version of Python

---
 ChangeLog           | 3 +++
 psycopg2.mdp        | 1 -
 tests/test_dates.py | 8 ++++----
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e547ebb7..ec86c3d5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2009-04-01  Federico Di Gregorio  <fog@initd.org>
 
+	* Applied patch from Menno Smits to fix failures in test_dates
+	when executed in older version of Python.
+
 	* Applied patch from Menno Smits to fix lobject test failures.
 
 2009-03-08  Federico Di Gregorio  <fog@initd.org>
diff --git a/psycopg2.mdp b/psycopg2.mdp
index 4f90bcfd..219809f8 100644
--- a/psycopg2.mdp
+++ b/psycopg2.mdp
@@ -153,5 +153,4 @@
     <File name="psycopg/adapter_pfloat.h" subtype="Code" buildaction="Nothing" />
   </Contents>
   <compiler ctype="GccCompiler" />
-  <MonoDevelop.ChangeLogAddIn.ChangeLogInfo policy="UpdateNearestChangeLog" />
 </Project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/test_dates.py b/tests/test_dates.py
index 7b9e59fe..0a02a119 100644
--- a/tests/test_dates.py
+++ b/tests/test_dates.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ class DatetimeTests(unittest.TestCase, CommonDatetimeTestsMixin):
         try:
             self.check_time_tz("+01:15:42", 4542)
         except ValueError, exc:
-            self.assertEqual(exc.message, "time zone offset 4542 is not a "
+            self.assertEqual(str(exc), "time zone offset 4542 is not a "
                              "whole number of minutes")
         else:
             self.fail("Expected ValueError")
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class DatetimeTests(unittest.TestCase, CommonDatetimeTestsMixin):
         try:
             self.check_time_tz("-01:15:42", -4542)
         except ValueError, exc:
-            self.assertEqual(exc.message, "time zone offset -4542 is not a "
+            self.assertEqual(str(exc), "time zone offset -4542 is not a "
                              "whole number of minutes")
         else:
             self.fail("Expected ValueError")
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class DatetimeTests(unittest.TestCase, CommonDatetimeTestsMixin):
         try:
             self.check_datetime_tz("+01:15:42", 4542)
         except ValueError, exc:
-            self.assertEqual(exc.message, "time zone offset 4542 is not a "
+            self.assertEqual(str(exc), "time zone offset 4542 is not a "
                              "whole number of minutes")
         else:
             self.fail("Expected ValueError")
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ class DatetimeTests(unittest.TestCase, CommonDatetimeTestsMixin):
         try:
             self.check_datetime_tz("-01:15:42", -4542)
         except ValueError, exc:
-            self.assertEqual(exc.message, "time zone offset -4542 is not a "
+            self.assertEqual(str(exc), "time zone offset -4542 is not a "
                              "whole number of minutes")
         else:
             self.fail("Expected ValueError")