On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>:
>> It's important to pin down the true cause of the problem, and not
>> blame something for doing the proper Pythonic thing.
>
> So could you tell me what the proper Pythonic fix for the example server
> in Python's documentation would be?
>
> Here's the code in question:
>
> ========================================================================
> import http.server
> import socketserver
>
> PORT = 8000
>
> Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
>
> with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:
> print("serving at port", PORT)
> httpd.serve_forever()
> ========================================================================
>
> BTW, the proper response would be a 404. 500 means: "There's a bug in my
> code".
>
The fix is a pull request against serve_forever to catch exceptions
and return 500s.
ChrisA
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