SF patch 1631942 by Collin Winter:

(a) "except E, V" -> "except E as V"
(b) V is now limited to a simple name (local variable)
(c) V is now deleted at the end of the except block

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
index 69ce508..858c9b1 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ e.g. ::
 
     >>> req = urllib2.Request('http://www.pretend_server.org')
     >>> try: urllib2.urlopen(req)
-    >>> except URLError, e:
+    >>> except URLError as e:
     >>>    print e.reason
     >>>
     (4, 'getaddrinfo failed')
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ attribute, it also has read, geturl, and info, methods. ::
     >>> req = urllib2.Request('http://www.python.org/fish.html')
     >>> try: 
     >>>     urllib2.urlopen(req)
-    >>> except URLError, e:
+    >>> except URLError as e:
     >>>     print e.code
     >>>     print e.read()
     >>> 
@@ -354,10 +354,10 @@ Number 1
     req = Request(someurl)
     try:
         response = urlopen(req)
-    except HTTPError, e:
+    except HTTPError as e:
         print 'The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.'
         print 'Error code: ', e.code
-    except URLError, e:
+    except URLError as e:
         print 'We failed to reach a server.'
         print 'Reason: ', e.reason
     else:
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ Number 2
     req = Request(someurl)
     try:
         response = urlopen(req)
-    except URLError, e:
+    except URLError as e:
         if hasattr(e, 'reason'):
             print 'We failed to reach a server.'
             print 'Reason: ', e.reason