[New-bugs-announce] [issue16647] LMTP.connect() loses socket error details

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:

In LMTP.connect() a socket error catched and saved but then raised a new error with saved error as argument.

Here is a patch which reraises an original error.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: smtplib_LMTP_connect_raise_err.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 177172
nosy: serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: LMTP.connect() loses socket error details
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28264/smtplib_LMTP_connect_raise_err.patch

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