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nitely on Feb 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Postmodern Error Handling in Python 3.6

Kennethreitz requests lib? Just use requests.exceptions.RequestException, that should handle every error, if not then report it.

For python urllib IOError and OSError should suffice. At least in py3.

jwilk on Feb 25, 2017 | [–]

  import urllib.request
  try:
      urllib.request.urlopen('https://wrong.host.badssl.com/')
  except (IOError, OSError):
      pass

causes:

  ssl.CertificateError: hostname 'wrong.host.badssl.com' doesn't match either of '*.badssl.com', 'badssl.com'

multipass on Feb 25, 2017 | [–]

and in Python >=3.3, IOError is an alias for OSError.

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