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  Try Except Specific Error Messages "brandon wallace" <nodnarb@gmx.us> - 2015-05-01 01:27 +0200

#89781 — Try Except Specific Error Messages

Hi,
 
I am try to get more specific error messages using try/except.
I ran this code with the cable unplugged to see the error message. I got 

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import urllib.request

webpage = urllib.request.urlopen("http://fakewebsite.com/")
text = webpage.read().decode("utf8")


I got two errors. This:
[....]
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

and this:
[....]
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>

I tried this but got more error messages.
try:
    webpage = urllib.request.urlopen("http://fakewebsite.com/")
    text = webpage.read().decode("utf8")
except URLError as err:
    print("URLError: " + str(err))

How do I wrap urllib.request with try/except?

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