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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050051<P>
Jean-Paul Calderone2aa2b332008-03-06 21:43:14 -050052We realized early that most of the exceptions would be raised by the I/O
Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050053functions of OpenSSL, so it felt natural to mimic OpenSSL's error code system,
54translating them into Python exceptions. This naturally gives us the exceptions
55<tt class="exception">SSL.ZeroReturnError</tt>, <tt class="exception">SSL.WantReadError</tt>,
56<tt class="exception">SSL.WantWriteError</tt>, <tt class="exception">SSL.WantX509LookupError</tt> and
57<tt class="exception">SSL.SysCallError</tt>.
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Jean-Paul Calderone2aa2b332008-03-06 21:43:14 -050060For more information about this, see section <A href="openssl-ssl.html#openssl-ssl">3.3</A>.
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