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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/urllib2.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py index df3729ab80..7124dfb055 100644 --- a/Lib/urllib2.py +++ b/Lib/urllib2.py @@ -145,8 +145,12 @@ def install_opener(opener): class URLError(IOError): # URLError is a sub-type of IOError, but it doesn't share any of - # the implementation. need to override __init__ and __str__ + # the implementation. need to override __init__ and __str__. + # It sets self.args for compatibility with other EnvironmentError + # subclasses, but args doesn't have the typical format with errno in + # slot 0 and strerror in slot 1. This may be better than nothing. def __init__(self, reason): + self.args = reason, self.reason = reason def __str__(self): |