Eclipse PyDev - my build is clean yet I get Syntax Error at runtime

Question

Looks good here:

except socket.error, err:
     raise urllib2.URLError(err)

But gives this error at runtime:

    except Exception, e:
                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Using Python 3.3 and Eclipse 5.0

Any suggestions for me? Do I need to reinstall the Interpreter?

Answer 1

You are using the Python 2 except syntax. Instead, try

except socket.err as err:
    raise urllib2.URLError(err)

See here for more info about exceptions, errors, and how to handle them. You can also use the Python 3 syntax in Python 2.6 and 2.7, as it was back-ported.