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author | Yuki K <drsuaimqjgar@gmail.com> | 2023-09-29 08:35:29 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-09-29 08:35:29 (GMT) |
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gh-101100: Fix references to ``URLError`` and ``HTTPError`` in ``howto/urllib2.rst`` (#107966)
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst index 86137fb..570435d 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst @@ -194,11 +194,11 @@ which comes after we have a look at what happens when things go wrong. Handling Exceptions =================== -*urlopen* raises :exc:`URLError` when it cannot handle a response (though as +*urlopen* raises :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` when it cannot handle a response (though as usual with Python APIs, built-in exceptions such as :exc:`ValueError`, :exc:`TypeError` etc. may also be raised). -:exc:`HTTPError` is the subclass of :exc:`URLError` raised in the specific case of +:exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError` is the subclass of :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` raised in the specific case of HTTP URLs. The exception classes are exported from the :mod:`urllib.error` module. @@ -229,12 +229,12 @@ the status code indicates that the server is unable to fulfil the request. The default handlers will handle some of these responses for you (for example, if the response is a "redirection" that requests the client fetch the document from a different URL, urllib will handle that for you). For those it can't handle, -urlopen will raise an :exc:`HTTPError`. Typical errors include '404' (page not +urlopen will raise an :exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError`. Typical errors include '404' (page not found), '403' (request forbidden), and '401' (authentication required). See section 10 of :rfc:`2616` for a reference on all the HTTP error codes. -The :exc:`HTTPError` instance raised will have an integer 'code' attribute, which +The :exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError` instance raised will have an integer 'code' attribute, which corresponds to the error sent by the server. Error Codes @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ dictionary is reproduced here for convenience :: } When an error is raised the server responds by returning an HTTP error code -*and* an error page. You can use the :exc:`HTTPError` instance as a response on the +*and* an error page. You can use the :exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError` instance as a response on the page returned. This means that as well as the code attribute, it also has read, geturl, and info, methods as returned by the ``urllib.response`` module:: @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ geturl, and info, methods as returned by the ``urllib.response`` module:: Wrapping it Up -------------- -So if you want to be prepared for :exc:`HTTPError` *or* :exc:`URLError` there are two +So if you want to be prepared for :exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError` *or* :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` there are two basic approaches. I prefer the second approach. Number 1 @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ Number 1 .. note:: The ``except HTTPError`` *must* come first, otherwise ``except URLError`` - will *also* catch an :exc:`HTTPError`. + will *also* catch an :exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError`. Number 2 ~~~~~~~~ @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ Number 2 info and geturl =============== -The response returned by urlopen (or the :exc:`HTTPError` instance) has two +The response returned by urlopen (or the :exc:`~urllib.error.HTTPError` instance) has two useful methods :meth:`info` and :meth:`geturl` and is defined in the module :mod:`urllib.response`.. |