New submission from Tim Morris <timo...@morrises.org.uk>: In the HOWTO for urllib2 for Python 2, in the Handling Exceptions section, it discusses the URLError exception being raised by urlopen() (https://docs.python.org/2/howto/urllib2.html#urlerror). The code snippet example for this has (I think) a minor error: the 3rd line reads: "except URLError as e:" which I think should be: "except urllib2.URLError as e:"
The code as given only works if urllib2 had been imported via: "from urllib2 import *" The snippet doesn't list the import statements but all the other examples just use "import urllib2" (and obviously "from x import *" is bad practice anyway and wouldn't be encouraged or expected). I am relatively new to Python, so it's possible it *is* correct and I just implemented it incorrectly. But if not, it would be helpful to correct it (even though it's a very minor error) so that other newbies like me don't come unstuck when using the tutorial. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 310201 nosy: MarmiteFox, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: urllib2 HOWTO URLError example minor error versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32586> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
