Although I'm not using these libraries, sometimes I get broken responses from Twitter.
I vote for Josh - in these cases just re-try. Usually it solves the problem. = Oren On Oct 15, 7:48 pm, Josh Roesslein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Hmm that is an odd error. I have not really experienced this in my > Tweepy library > during development. I don't use urllib2, but instead httplib directly. > If this just happens > once in a while maybe just catch that error and just retry the request. > > Josh > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Ryan Rosario <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I use Python for most of my development with the Twitter API, and I > > have been using urllib2 to extract content. > > > After running my scripts for some period of time (sometimes 5 mins, > > sometimes several hours) I get an httplib.BadLineStatus exception. All > > I could find on this error is that it means the server sent an HTTP > > error that is non-standard (?). The exception was passed up to the > > httplib from urllib2. > > > This also happened with DeWitt's Python package (which uses urllib2). > > > Without knowing what content is being returned (if any), I am having a > > difficult time nailing down what is causing this exception. Has > > anybody else experienced this problem? Is there any way to prevent it? > > (right now I am just retrying the request) > > -- > Josh
