Exceptions in this module are coded as class instances:
Error
has a single public data
member msg
containing the description of the error.
Error
. Contains no additional instance
variables.
Here is an example of how you would catch one of these exceptions:
import xdrlib p = xdrlib.Packer() try: p.pack_double(8.01) except xdrlib.ConversionError, instance: print 'packing the double failed:', instance.msg