Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 10:17 -0800, Steve Willoughby a écrit : > 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. > > So you either want to say: > > from telnetlib import gaierror > > at the top of your script, or if you earlier said simply "import telnetlib", > > then your try/except clause would be like: > > except telnetlib.gaierror: > Well, actually, gaierror is an Exception of the socket module:
import telnetlib,socket tc = telnetlib.Telnet() try: tc.open("abc") except socket.gaierror: print "Invalid hostname" raise ==> s...@o:~/prog/parse$ python "___test.py" Invalid hostname Traceback (most recent call last): File "___test.py", line 6, in <module> tc.open("abc") File "/usr/lib/python2.5/telnetlib.py", line 225, in open for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM): socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known') Denis _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor