by rspeeron 4/23/2014, 7:42:38 AM

Why Python 2.7 only? This looks like it would be Python 3 code if you simply changed

    print str(err)

to:

    print(str(err))

Except, that's a pretty unhelpful thing to print. I believe a much better statement to put there, in Python 2 or 3, would be:

    raise