From: Ben Darnell <ben@bendarnell.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:55:59 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Update example for HTTPClient exception handling.
X-Git-Tag: v4.1.0b1~87
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24c2f57704b82035a578a225f3d2a405491e4b82;p=thirdparty%2Ftornado.git

Update example for HTTPClient exception handling.

Eliminate the implication that HTTPError is the only
error that can be raised.  See #1168.
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diff --git a/tornado/httpclient.py b/tornado/httpclient.py
index c8ecf47c3..df4295171 100644
--- a/tornado/httpclient.py
+++ b/tornado/httpclient.py
@@ -63,7 +63,12 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
             response = http_client.fetch("http://www.google.com/")
             print response.body
         except httpclient.HTTPError as e:
-            print "Error:", e
+            # HTTPError is raised for non-200 responses; the response
+            # can be found in e.response.
+            print("Error: " + str(e))
+        except Exception as e:
+            # Other errors are possible, such as IOError.
+            print("Error: " + str(e))
         http_client.close()
     """
     def __init__(self, async_client_class=None, **kwargs):