In <mailman.230.1313780957.27778.python-l...@python.org> Yingjie Lin <yingjie....@mssm.edu> writes:
> try: > response = urlopen(urljoin(uri1, uri2)) > except urllib2.HTTPError: > print "URL does not exist!" > Though "urllib2.HTTPError" is the error type reported by Python, Python > doesn't recognize it as an error type name. I tried using "HTTPError" > alone too, but that's not recognized either. Have you imported urllib2 in your code? > Does anyone know what error type I should put after the except > statement? or even better: is there a way not to specify the error > types? Thank you. You can catch all exceptions by catching the base class Exception: try: some_method() except Exception, e: print "some error happened, here is the explanation:" print str(e) -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list