From 306c4cb57d6d3a90eff8af062bde446ec75698fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 15:12:13 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #180: Avoid deprecated BaseException.message

---
 websocket/_utils.py | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/websocket/_utils.py b/websocket/_utils.py
index 3369379..dda1d0c 100644
--- a/websocket/_utils.py
+++ b/websocket/_utils.py
@@ -85,8 +85,4 @@ def validate_utf8(utfbytes):
 
 
 def extract_err_message(exception):
-    message = getattr(exception, 'strerror', '')
-    if not message:
-        message = getattr(exception, 'message', '')
-
-    return message
+    return getattr(exception, 'strerror', str(exception))