[issue21968] 'abort' object is not callable

R. David Murray added the comment: That's why we made the syntax require the 'as' keyword in 3.x :) -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved ___ Python tracker

[issue21968] 'abort' object is not callable

Apple Grew added the comment: Oops. I totally missed this. Thanks for pointing this out. I would have never found this. -- status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue21968] 'abort' object is not callable

Walter Dörwald added the comment: The problem seems to be in that line: except imaplib.IMAP4_SSL.abort, imaplib.IMAP4.abort: This does *not* catch both exception classes, but catches only IMAP4_SSL.abort and stores the exception object in imaplib.IMAP4.abort. What you want is: except (

[issue21968] 'abort' object is not callable

Apple Grew added the comment: Yes, I actually doing - print '>>', self.abort, from _init_, and other methods I am invoking. However, that seems to print nothing! I don't know why. My codes which is using impalib is able to print stuffs. -- ___ Pytho

[issue21968] 'abort' object is not callable

Ezio Melotti added the comment: In imaplib, abort is either raised or caught (in addition to be the defined once), so the error doesn't seem to be there. I suggest you to try and print self.abort (and possibly its repr()/id() or similar informations) and try to determine if/when it gets changed

[issue21968] 'abort' object is not callable

Apple Grew added the comment: That is the problem. I don't assign anything to that. I in fact grepped my code for the word abort but could find none, except in the following code block. def retryableCall(f, retries, delay): while True: try: return f() except imapl

[issue21968] 'abort' object is not callable

Ezio Melotti added the comment: Do you assign anything to self.abort in your code? Without further information we can't determine if this is a bug with impalib, I checked the code and I don't see anything that might change self.abort. -- nosy: +ezio.melotti type: crash -> behavior

[issue21968] 'abort' object is not callable

New submission from Apple Grew: I am sometimes getting the following error from imaplib. Traceback (most recent call last): File "client.py", line 105, in get_new_mail_uids result, data = retryableCall(lambda : mail.uid('search', None, "UNSEEN"), retries, delay) # search and return uids i