urllib exception http.client.BadStatusLine - exception

Question

I can't for the life of me figure out why I can't catch this exception.
Looking here at this guide.
def get_team_names(get_team_id_url, team_id):
print(get_team_id_url + team_id)
try:
response = urllib.request.urlopen(get_team_id_url + team_id)
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
print(e.code)
print(e.read())
except urllib.error.URLError as e:
print(e.code)
print(e.read())
exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "queue_cleaner_main.py", line 60, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "queue_cleaner_main.py", line 57, in main
team_names_to_contact = queue_cleaner_functions.get_team_names(SERVICE_NOW_TEAM_NAME_URL, team[2])
File "D:\oppssup\old_job\queue_cleaner_functions.py", line 132, in get_team_names
response = urllib.request.urlopen(get_team_id_url + team_id)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 153, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 455, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 473, in _open
'_open', req)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 433, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1202, in http_open
return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPConnection, req)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1177, in do_open
r = h.getresponse()
File "C:\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 1172, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "C:\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 351, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "C:\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 321, in _read_status
raise BadStatusLine(line)
http.client.BadStatusLine: ''
In addition, my entire method seems to be very clunky. I cannot figure out an elegant way to handle exceptions, including a case where no result is returned.
def get_team_names(get_team_id_url, team_id):
print(get_team_id_url + team_id)
try:
response = urllib.request.urlopen(get_team_id_url + team_id)
except Exception as e:
#print(e.code)
#print(e.read())
print('shit')
#print(response.read().decode('utf8'))
r_json = json.loads(response.read().decode('utf8'))
print(r_json['result'])
for i in r_json['result']:
print(i['group'])
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "queue_cleaner_main.py", line 60, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "queue_cleaner_main.py", line 57, in main
team_names_to_contact = queue_cleaner_functions.get_team_names(SERVICE_NOW_TEAM_NAME_URL, team[2])
File "D:\oppssup\old_job\queue_cleaner_functions.py", line 141, in get_team_names
r_json = json.loads(response.read().decode('utf8'))
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'response' referenced before assignment

Answer 1

This http.client.BadStatusLine is a subclass of http.client.HTTPException. I think if you do:
try:
response = urllib.request.urlopen(get_team_id_url + team_id)
except http.client.HTTPException as e:
print(e)
then you shouldn't have problem catching it. However, what caused it is perhaps what you should concern.