Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> added the comment:

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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