[Baypiggies] urllib2.urlopen() and exception layering

[Keith Dart]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Gregory P. Smith wrote:

> urllib2 is a pretty big mess and does unfortunately violate the general rule
> of exception catching + retyping + reraising being a bad idea.

BTW, if you are doing this kind of thing a very good alternative is 
pycurl, a wrapper for the libcurl library. This does introduce an external 
dependency, but curl/libcurl is a useful thing to have around, anyway.



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