Packages, modules and exceptions

[Steve Purcell]

Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
> 
> In M2Crypto, I have the following (abridged) directory structure:
> 
>     M2Crypto/
>             SSL/
>                 __init__.py
>                 Connection.py
> 

I assume you also have a file 'M2Crypto/__init__.py'...


> Now, various parts of M2Crypto/SSL/Connection.py wish to raise SSLError 
> when it is appropriate to do so. 
> 
> For M2Crypto/SSL/Connection.py to get access to SSLError which is defined
> in M2Crypto/SSL/__init__.py, it (Connection.py) contains the following:
> 
>     SSLError = 
>      __import__('M2Crypto.SSL', globals(), locals(), 'SSLError').SSLError
> 
> This works, but looks kinda funny.
> 
> What's the best way to do this?


from M2Crypto.SSL import SSLError
raise SSLError, "there's a problem"


-Steve


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