newforms.ValidationError doesn't accept translated strings

[Thomas Steinacher <tom@…>]

>>> from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
>>> from django.newforms import ValidationError
>>> ValidationError(_(u'Hello'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in ?
  File "/home/tom/django/django/newforms/util.py", line 50, in __init__
    assert isinstance(message, basestring), ("%s should be a basestring" % repr(message))
AssertionError: <django.utils.functional.__proxy__ object at 0xb760a4ec> should be a basestring
>>>

[Thomas Steinacher <tom@…>]

let's just remove the assertion

[anonymous]

Any update on this?

[Thomas Steinacher <tom@…>]

Looks like #5370 has a slightly better patch.