From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 05:58:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Only AttributeError can be raised in this situation - on systems without
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~6379
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91cc17d20e0ad668944fcf8ef9a6c523455d64d7;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Only AttributeError can be raised in this situation - on systems without
getuid or getpid.  posix_getuid & posix_getpid never raise exceptions when
called with no args.
---

diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
index 7cf8ad672e02..eb0ab713109c 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetools.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetools.py
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ def choose_boundary():
         hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
         try:
             uid = `os.getuid()`
-        except:
+        except AttributeError:
             uid = '1'
         try:
             pid = `os.getpid()`
-        except:
+        except AttributeError:
             pid = '1'
         _prefix = hostid + '.' + uid + '.' + pid
     timestamp = '%.3f' % time.time()