From 0a8d35fcc49d6dc171cc12d600d93f3931b05efb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Brian J. Crowell" <brian@fluggo.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 23:45:17 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Set up Sane error object as exception instead of string

String exceptions don't work anymore.
---
 Sane/_sane.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Sane/_sane.c b/Sane/_sane.c
index 2939371a5..d45e6a346 100644
--- a/Sane/_sane.c
+++ b/Sane/_sane.c
@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ init_sane(void)
 
 	/* Add some symbolic constants to the module */
 	PyObject *d = PyModule_GetDict(m);
-	ErrorObject = PyBytes_FromString("_sane.error");
+	ErrorObject = PyErr_NewException("_sane.error", NULL, NULL);
 	PyDict_SetItemString(d, "error", ErrorObject);
 
 	insint(d, "INFO_INEXACT", SANE_INFO_INEXACT);