Uncatchable socket.error in socket.py (?)

[Rune]

Irmen de Jong  wrote:

>Rune wrote:
>> Now, enough words: What I wonder is: Can I catch that socket.error?
>
>By not doing
>
>   from socket import *
>
>but rather
>
>   import socket
>
>(and prefixing your code with "socket." where it's needed).
>
>The socket.error you tried to catch is coming from the socket
>object that you placed in your namespace by doing the "from"
>import. And the socket class doesn't have an "error" attribute ;)

Thanks Irmen, but the problem seems to be that the server is actually
crashed before I can catch the exception. There is no connection to
send output to.  I have no idea how to avoid this.

Rune