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changeset: 73824:deb60efd32eb parent: 73821:51af35bd46f7 parent: 73823:abfe76a19f63 user: Jason R. Coombs jaraco@jaraco.com date: Sat Dec 03 09:39:58 2011 -0500 files: Lib/test/test_urllib2.py Lib/urllib/error.py description: Merged fix for #13211 from 3.2 diff -r 51af35bd46f7 -r deb60efd32eb Lib/test/test_urllib2.py --- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py Sat Dec 03 08:59:53 2011 -0500 +++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py Sat Dec 03 09:39:58 2011 -0500 @@ -1449,6 +1449,17 @@ req = Request(url) self.assertEqual(req.get_full_url(), url) +def test_HTTPError_interface(): + """ + Issue 13211 reveals that HTTPError didn't implement the URLError + interface even though HTTPError is a subclass of URLError. + + >>> err = urllib.error.HTTPError(msg='something bad happened', url=None, code=None, hdrs=None, fp=None) + >>> assert hasattr(err, 'reason') + >>> err.reason + 'something bad happened' + """ + def test_main(verbose=None): from test import test_urllib2 support.run_doctest(test_urllib2, verbose) diff -r 51af35bd46f7 -r deb60efd32eb Lib/urllib/error.py --- a/Lib/urllib/error.py Sat Dec 03 08:59:53 2011 -0500 +++ b/Lib/urllib/error.py Sat Dec 03 09:39:58 2011 -0500 @@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ def __str__(self): return 'HTTP Error %s: %s' % (self.code, self.msg) + # since URLError specifies a .reason attribute, HTTPError should also + # provide this attribute. See issue13211 for discussion. + @property + def reason(self): + return self.msg + # exception raised when downloaded size does not match content-length class ContentTooShortError(URLError): def __init__(self, message, content): /jaraco@jaraco.com