try/catch not catching HTTPError

Question

I have some basic code that tries to request a page using BeautifulSoup:

from bs4 import *
from urllib.request import urlopen

try:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen('http://badsite.com/404'))
except urllib.exceptions.HTTPError:
    pass

This still raises:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTTPError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-24-a0aa8eb7a9ee> in <module>

I have substituted urllib.exceptions.HTTPError for requests.HTTPError and requests.exceptions.HTTPError. All of them still fail to catch the error. How do I properly catch an HTTPError?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 27 '20 at 20:21

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Have you tried urllib.error.HTTPError? This answer might help.

answered Aug 27 '20 at 20:21

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