From e1d3242b2a695e53f3384a46864b72f8d4bc5a3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Hedberg <roland.hedberg@adm.umu.se>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:42:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Best effort.

---
 src/saml2/s_utils.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/saml2/s_utils.py b/src/saml2/s_utils.py
index b5f12cb..0343467 100644
--- a/src/saml2/s_utils.py
+++ b/src/saml2/s_utils.py
@@ -219,7 +219,10 @@ def error_status_factory(info):
             exc_val = EXCEPTION2STATUS[info.__class__]
         except KeyError:
             exc_val = samlp.STATUS_AUTHN_FAILED
-        msg = info.args[0]
+        try:
+            msg = info.args[0]
+        except IndexError:
+            msg = "%s" % info
         status = samlp.Status(
             status_message=samlp.StatusMessage(text=msg),
             status_code=samlp.StatusCode(