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<span id="urllib-error-exception-classes-raised-by-urllib-request"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-urllib.error" title="urllib.error: Exception classes raised by urllib.request."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.error</span></code></a> — Exception classes raised by urllib.request<a class="headerlink" href="#module-urllib.error" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.7/Lib/urllib/error.py">Lib/urllib/error.py</a></p>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-urllib.error" title="urllib.error: Exception classes raised by urllib.request."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.error</span></code></a> module defines the exception classes for exceptions
raised by <a class="reference internal" href="urllib.request.html#module-urllib.request" title="urllib.request: Extensible library for opening URLs."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.request</span></code></a>. The base exception class is <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.error.URLError" title="urllib.error.URLError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">URLError</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>The following exceptions are raised by <a class="reference internal" href="#module-urllib.error" title="urllib.error: Exception classes raised by urllib.request."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.error</span></code></a> as appropriate:</p>
<dl class="exception">
<dt id="urllib.error.URLError">
<em class="property">exception </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">urllib.error.</code><code class="sig-name descname">URLError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.error.URLError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The handlers raise this exception (or derived exceptions) when they run into
a problem. It is a subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a>.</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="urllib.error.URLError.reason">
<code class="sig-name descname">reason</code><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.error.URLError.reason" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The reason for this error. It can be a message string or another
exception instance.</p>
</dd></dl>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span><a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.error.URLError" title="urllib.error.URLError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">URLError</span></code></a> has been made a subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a> instead
of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#IOError" title="IOError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">IOError</span></code></a>.</p>
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</dd></dl>
<dl class="exception">
<dt id="urllib.error.HTTPError">
<em class="property">exception </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">urllib.error.</code><code class="sig-name descname">HTTPError</code><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.error.HTTPError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Though being an exception (a subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.error.URLError" title="urllib.error.URLError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">URLError</span></code></a>), an
<a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.error.HTTPError" title="urllib.error.HTTPError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HTTPError</span></code></a> can also function as a non-exceptional file-like return
value (the same thing that <a class="reference internal" href="urllib.request.html#urllib.request.urlopen" title="urllib.request.urlopen"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlopen()</span></code></a> returns). This
is useful when handling exotic HTTP errors, such as requests for
authentication.</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="urllib.error.HTTPError.code">
<code class="sig-name descname">code</code><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.error.HTTPError.code" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>An HTTP status code as defined in <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616.html"><strong>RFC 2616</strong></a>. This numeric value corresponds
to a value found in the dictionary of codes as found in
<a class="reference internal" href="http.server.html#http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.responses" title="http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.responses"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.responses</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="urllib.error.HTTPError.reason">
<code class="sig-name descname">reason</code><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.error.HTTPError.reason" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This is usually a string explaining the reason for this error.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="urllib.error.HTTPError.headers">
<code class="sig-name descname">headers</code><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.error.HTTPError.headers" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The HTTP response headers for the HTTP request that caused the
<a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.error.HTTPError" title="urllib.error.HTTPError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HTTPError</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.4.</span></p>
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</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="exception">
<dt id="urllib.error.ContentTooShortError">
<em class="property">exception </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">urllib.error.</code><code class="sig-name descname">ContentTooShortError</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">msg</em>, <em class="sig-param">content</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.error.ContentTooShortError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This exception is raised when the <a class="reference internal" href="urllib.request.html#urllib.request.urlretrieve" title="urllib.request.urlretrieve"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlretrieve()</span></code></a>
function detects that
the amount of the downloaded data is less than the expected amount (given by
the <em>Content-Length</em> header). The <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">content</span></code> attribute stores the
downloaded (and supposedly truncated) data.</p>
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