From 5a45f257cad2f2077fc2acda872b48e12d2bc1c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:53:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix #3071: import error message

---
 electrum | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/electrum b/electrum
index 7e948cdbf..f2ba3a581 100755
--- a/electrum
+++ b/electrum
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def check_imports():
         import google.protobuf
         import jsonrpclib
     except ImportError as e:
-        sys.exit("Error: %s. Try 'sudo pip install <module-name>'"%e.message)
+        sys.exit("Error: %s. Try 'sudo pip install <module-name>'"%str(e))
     # the following imports are for pyinstaller
     from google.protobuf import descriptor
     from google.protobuf import message