-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Larry Bates wrote:
> I noticed you hadn't gotten a reply. When I execute this it put's the > following in the retrieved file: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE> > </HEAD><BODY> > <H1>Not Found</H1> > The requested URL /pool/updates/main/p/perl/libparl5.6_5.6.1-8.9_i386.deb > was no t found on this server.<P> > </BODY></HTML> > > You will probably need to use something else to first determine if the URL > actually exists. I'm happy that at least someone responded as this was my first post to the python mailing list. I'm coding a program for offline package management. The link that I provided could be obsolete by newer packages. That is where my problem is. I wanted to know how to raise an exception here so that depending on the type of exception I could make my program function. For example, for Temporary Name Resolution Failure, python raises an exception which I've handled well. The problem lies with obsolete urls where no exception is raised and I end up having a 404 error page as my data. Can we have an exception for that ? Or can we have the exit status of urllib.urlretrieve to know if it downloaded the desired file. I think my problem is fixable in urllib.urlopen, I just find urllib.urlretrieve more convenient and want to know if it can be done with it. Thanks for responding. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCSuYS4Rhi6gTxMLwRAu0FAJ9R0s4TyB7zHcvDFTflOp2joVkErQCfU4vG 8U0Ah5WTdTQHKRkmPsZsHdE= =OMub -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
