[DB-SIG] Unifying exceptions (was: db module wrapper)

[Ian Bicking]

There might be a clever/tricky solution that would be a little easier to 
implement and more reliable.

Hmm... you could try changing the exceptions, like:

import psycopg
psycopg.DatabaseError = MyDatabaseError

I don't know if this will always stick, or if it's always mutable in 
this way.  Another way might be:

class MyDatabaseError(Exception):
     pass
psycopg.DatabaseError.__bases__ = (MyDatabaseError,)

Then you can catch MyDatabaseError, and it will catch 
psycopg.DatabaseError (since it's a subclass).  This might be more 
likely to stick, and work better with the C modules.  (Maybe, I don't 
know...?)

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