Message 106075 - Python tracker

Message106075

Author	srid
Recipients	orsenthil, r.david.murray, srid, tarek
Date	2010-05-19.16:08:28
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On 2010-05-19, at 5:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > I've fixed the problem on distribute side by catching any ValueError returned by urlparse (from 2.6 or 2.7 point of view). Catching ValueError will catch every ValueError raised, rather than only the intended one: ValueError("Invalid IPv6 URL"). Can we have a custom exception for this? Generally, I am curious as to what the convention is in regards to raising standard vs custom exceptions from the standard library.

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On 2010-05-19, at 5:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> I've fixed the problem on distribute side by catching any ValueError returned by urlparse (from 2.6 or 2.7 point of view).

Catching ValueError will catch *every* ValueError raised, rather than only the intended one: ValueError("Invalid IPv6 URL"). Can we have a custom exception for this? Generally, I am curious as to what the convention is in regards to raising standard vs custom exceptions from the standard library.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-05-19 16:08:31	srid	set	recipients: + srid, orsenthil, tarek, r.david.murray
2010-05-19 16:08:29	srid	link	issue8721 messages
2010-05-19 16:08:29	srid	create