[Yum-devel] [UG] python 2.2 and TimeoutError

[Pekka Pessi]

Hello all,

urlgrabber fails to produce any meaningful diagnostics when a network 
error occurs on systems with python 2.2 (or earlier). This is because 
TimeoutError is None, which is not a valid argument to isinstance(), for 
instance.

A patch is attached.

--Pekka

diff -u grabber.py.orig grabber.py
--- grabber.py.orig     2005-01-25 10:08:15.000000000 +0200
+++ grabber.py  2005-07-12 03:16:28.000000000 +0300
@@ -339,7 +339,8 @@
     TimeoutError = socket.timeout
     have_socket_timeout = True
 except AttributeError:
-    TimeoutError = None
+    class TimeoutError:
+        pass
     have_socket_timeout = False
 
 class URLGrabError(IOError):