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		jwilk on Feb 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postmodern Error Handling in Python 3.6 `>>> import socket >>> issubclass(socket.error, Exception) True` It's been like this since Python 2.4 at least.

mypalmike on March 1, 2017 [–]

I stand corrected. Well, partly. Looks like it was changed in 2.6.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#socket.error

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