library defined exceptions

[TuxTrax]

On 30 Oct 2002 12:52:18 GMT, Gerhard Häring Wrote in
Steve Ballmers hair grease:

> TuxTrax <TuxTrax at fortress.tuxnet.net> [2002-10-30 11:43 GMT]:
>> Hi all. I am working on a program to download all headers from
>> my news server and place them in a shelve file, called 'database',
>> on the local hard drive.
> 
> Sounds familiar :)
> 
>> [...] here is the code section that I am having trouble with: [...]
> 
>>     except NNTPTemporaryError, errorarg:
> 
>> If an exception is raised, I get something like:
>> 
>>  File "head.py", line 404, in ?
>>     except NNTPTemporaryError, errorarg:
>> NameError: There is no variable named 'NNTPTemporaryError'
> 
> You need to qualify the exception classes as well, if you use the "import
> module" form. I. e. use "nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError".
> 
> -- Gerhard

it needs to read:

try:
    <code block>
except nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError, errorarg:
    <code block>

and python will recognize the nntplib defined exceptions, in this case
NNTPTemporaryError?

Cheers,

Mathew

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