Bugs item #1186900, was opened at 2005-04-20 12:52 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by mattrope You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1186900&group_id=5470
Category: Python Library Group: Feature Request Status: Open Resolution: None >Priority: 3 Submitted By: Matt Roper (mattrope) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: nntplib shouldn't raise generic EOFError Initial Comment: Python's nntplib currently raises a generic EOFError if the connection is closed unexpectedly. This seems inconsistent with other Python libraries (smtplib, imaplib, etc.) and is unexpected behaviour. It seems that a new Exception class derived from the NNTPError (e.g., NNTPConnectionError) should be used instead. As it stands now, the only indication that EOFError can be raised is in the docstring for the internal getline() method. There is no mention in the documentation that higher level methods call getline() and can raise the EOFError to the application level. If no new exception class is added for this situation, it would be nice to have this behaviour noted in the documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1186900&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
