Use except/as, now supported by Python 2.6

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/package_index.py b/setuptools/package_index.py
index 58572ce6..5ed19130 100755
--- a/setuptools/package_index.py
+++ b/setuptools/package_index.py
@@ -699,25 +699,21 @@ class PackageIndex(Environment):
             return local_open(url)
         try:
             return open_with_auth(url, self.opener)
-        except (ValueError, httplib.InvalidURL):
-            v = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        except (ValueError, httplib.InvalidURL) as v:
             msg = ' '.join([str(arg) for arg in v.args])
             if warning:
                 self.warn(warning, msg)
             else:
                 raise DistutilsError('%s %s' % (url, msg))
-        except urllib2.HTTPError:
-            v = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        except urllib2.HTTPError as v:
             return v
-        except urllib2.URLError:
-            v = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        except urllib2.URLError as v:
             if warning:
                 self.warn(warning, v.reason)
             else:
                 raise DistutilsError("Download error for %s: %s"
                                      % (url, v.reason))
-        except httplib.BadStatusLine:
-            v = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        except httplib.BadStatusLine as v:
             if warning:
                 self.warn(warning, v.line)
             else:
@@ -726,8 +722,7 @@ class PackageIndex(Environment):
                     'down, %s' %
                     (url, v.line)
                 )
-        except httplib.HTTPException:
-            v = sys.exc_info()[1]
+        except httplib.HTTPException as v:
             if warning:
                 self.warn(warning, v)
             else: