SF patch [ 816787 ] urllib2.URLError don't calll IOError.__init__
Not sure if this fix is great, but it's probably a small improvement.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index df3729a..7124dfb 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -145,8 +145,12 @@
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):