Avi Gross <avigr...@verizon.net> wrote: > The original question sounded like someone was asking what errors might be > thrown for a routine they wrote that used other components that might > directly throw exceptions or called yet others, ad nauseum. > OP here. The original question was because I wanted to trap timout errors when connectiing to a POP3 server in a very simple little program that collects mail and runs it through a filter before delivering it.
Thus I simply needed to know what the 'name' of the exception was so I could trap only timeouts. Timeout errors are (probably) 'soft' errors which merit a retry, most other errors when trying to connect to a POP server would be unrecoverable (POP syntax, wrong name, wrong password, etc.). It didn't seem such a difficult question when I asked it! :-) -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
