On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 19:17, Steve Willoughby <st...@alchemy.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 07:09:51PM +0100, Sander Sweers wrote: >> I am having issues cathing exceptions from telnetlib. What I am doing is: >> except gaierror: >> Which gives me "NameError: name 'gaierror' is not defined" :-( > > This error message contains your clue. If the name you're referencing is not > defined, you usually forgot to either explicitly import it, or to name it > with its namespace attached.
Looking more closely it is not an error from telnetlib. It is an error from the socket module. > from telnetlib import gaierror It works with import socket. > then your try/except clause would be like: > except telnetlib.gaierror: I can catch it now with socket.gaierror but I do not understand why telnetlib does not raise an error instead. To me it would be more logically that telnetlib catches this and raises an error. Now this comes from a very novice programmer so I might be way off on this :-) Another question, read_until can be passed a timeout. How would catch if the timeout hit? It does not raise an error it afaics just returns whatever it read till the timeout. Thanks Sander _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
