Catch gaierror in Django / Python?

Question

How do I properly catch a gaierror in Django or Python? This error is brought up when a request to a 3rd party API is made and no connection can be made. I tried a try with an empty except but the gaierror was not caught.

Advice? Thanks!

Answer 1

I've seen some rumbling in some websearches about using urllib and urllib2 to catch these errors. Maybe something in this question may help you.