commit 91cc17d20e0ad668944fcf8ef9a6c523455d64d7
author Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> Sat Mar 23 05:58:52 2002 +0000
committer Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> Sat Mar 23 05:58:52 2002 +0000
tree 1fc98874bbb09c98b1a635f839c34204206c852a
parent 3c4a629bdca5d57238b38e69820896acdb388785

Only AttributeError can be raised in this situation - on systems without
getuid or getpid.  posix_getuid & posix_getpid never raise exceptions when
called with no args.

Lib/mimetools.py

diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
index 7cf8ad6..eb0ab71 100644
--- a/Lib/mimetools.py
+++ b/Lib/mimetools.py
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@
         hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
         try:
             uid = `os.getuid()`
-        except:
+        except AttributeError:
             uid = '1'
         try:
             pid = `os.getpid()`
-        except:
+        except AttributeError:
             pid = '1'
         _prefix = hostid + '.' + uid + '.' + pid
     timestamp = '%.3f' % time.time()