[Fwd: Bug#143159: python-pygresql: pygresql raises the wrong exception type]

Debian bug report on 7.2.1 PygreSQL. Could any Python guru comment,
please?

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From: dman <dman(at)dman(dot)ddts(dot)net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)org>
Subject: Bug#143159: python-pygresql: pygresql raises the wrong exception type
Date: 16 Apr 2002 11:41:05 -0500

Package: python-pygresql
Version: 7.2.1-2
Severity: normal

I have just discovered that pygresql raises the wrong exception type
in some circumstances. All exceptions are supposed to be a subclass
of pgdb.Error. If postmaster is not running on the host, this example
shows that pygresql raises an exception whose type is '_pg.error' (a
string).

~~~~
#!/usr/bin/python2.1

import sys
import pgdb

try :
conn = pgdb.connect( host="localhost" )
except pgdb.Error :
print "Correct"
except :
print "Wrong!"
print type( sys.exc_info()[0] )
sys.stdout.write( sys.exc_info()[1] )
~~~~

~~~~
Wrong!
<type 'string'>
could not connect to server: Connection refused
Is the server running on host localhost and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
~~~~

-D

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dman 2.4.18-custom.3 #1 Mon Apr 15 09:54:59 CDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages python-pygresql depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpgsql2 7.2.1-2 Shared library libpq.so.2 for Post
ii python 2.1.2-3 An interactive object-oriented scr
ii python2.1-egenix-mxdatetime 2.0.3-3 Date and time handling routines fo

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