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10.16.3. Exceptions

Exceptions in this module are coded as class instances:

Error -- exception of module xdrlib: The base exception class. Error has a single public data member msg containing the description of the error.

ConversionError -- exception of module xdrlib: Class derived from 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