urllib2 won't raise exceptions

[OtisUsenet]

Problem solved.
I had to refer to those URLError and HTTPError objects as
urllib2.URLError and urllib2.HTTPError.

Otis

otis_usenet at yahoo.com (OtisUsenet) wrote in message news:<5606b639.0207221527.12f91366 at posting.google.com>...
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use urllib2 to make HTTP POST requests and a) retrieve
> HTTP status, and b) check for any exceptions.
> 
> 1) I don't see a way to get the status code back from urllib nor
> urllib2 (and I read that this will be impossible to get from them and
> that httplib should be used instead).
> 
> 2) I read that if something fails, URLError or HTTPError will be
> raised.  So I have the code to catch them and print someting. 
> However, nothing ever gets printed, even if I request pages that give
> '500 Server Error', like in the case below.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Thanks.
> (pardon my indentation, I pasted this a few times...)
> 
> from urllib2 import *
> 
> def sendRequest(self):
> 
>          try:
>              # NB: this URL gives "500 Server Error"
>              urlObject = \
> urllib2.urlopen('http://www.clr.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/doc/show/doc=Cross.Rodney')
>              response = urlObject.read()
>              urlObject.close()
>              return response
>          except URLError, msg:
>              print "URLError: ", msg;
>          except HTTPError, msg:
>              print "HTTPError: ", msg;
>          except Exception, msg:
>              print "EXCEPTION"
>          except Error, e:
>              print "ERROR"