[Python-modules-team] pyclamd: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated Package: python-pyclamd

[Henri Salo]

Version: 0.1.1-1
Severity: important
File: pyclamd

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fgeek at example:~$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 17:44:40) 
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pyclamd
>>> try:
...     print pyclamd.version()
... except Exception, e:
...     print e
... 
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pyclamd.py:422: DeprecationWarning:
raising a string exception is deprecated raise ScanError, 'Could not
reach clamd : connexion not initialised' Traceback (most recent call
last): File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pyclamd.py", line 199, in
version s = __init_socket__()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pyclamd.py", line 422, in
__init_socket__ raise ScanError, 'Could not reach clamd : connexion not
initialised' ScanError: Could not reach clamd : connexion not
initialised
>>> 

pyclamd also doesn't respect "except Exception".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-pyclamd depends on:
ii  clamav-daemon    0.96.1+dfsg-1~volatile1 anti-virus utility for
Unix - scan ii  python-support   0.8.4lenny2             automated
rebuilding support for P

python-pyclamd recommends no packages.

python-pyclamd suggests no packages.

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