Unable to handle exception - http-error

Question

I am using clearbit module to get the company information from the domain name. I tried to handle HTTPException, but somehow it is not recognized and throwing one more Exception NameError.
import clearbit
def abc(i):
try:
company = clearbit.Company.find(domain=i,stream=True)
if company['name'] is None:
return "No customer"
else: return company['name']
except HTTPError as e:
s="No customer"
return s
abc('244treqda.com')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTTPError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-152-43005b4345c0> in abc(i)
3 try:
----> 4 company = clearbit.Company.find(domain=i,stream=True)
5 if company['name'] is None:
~\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\clearbit\enrichment\company.py in find(cls, **options)
15
---> 16 return cls.get(url, **options)
17
~\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\clearbit\resource.py in get(cls, url, **values)
54 else:
---> 55 response.raise_for_status()
56
~\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py in raise_for_status(self)
939 if http_error_msg:
--> 940 raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
941
HTTPError: 422 Client Error: Unprocessable Entity for url: https://company-stream.clearbit.com/v2/companies/find?domain=244treqda.com
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-153-8c883a3f90d2> in <module>
----> 1 abc('244treqda.com')
<ipython-input-152-43005b4345c0> in abc(i)
7 else:
8 return company['name']
----> 9 except HTTPError as e:
10 s="No customer"
11 return s
NameError: name 'HTTPError' is not defined
In [119]:
try:
clearbit.Company.find(domain=i,stream=True)
except urllib2.HTTPError as err:
if err.code == 422:
return "No customer"
Expected output "No customer" but getting HTTPError and Attributeerror.

Answer 1

If you look a bit further in the stack trace you see
NameError: name 'HTTPError' is not defined
The HTTPError is not a built in python exception - you'll need to import this from an appropriate module in order to catch that type of exception.
At the top of your python module add from urllib.error import HTTPError and it should work.
Alternatively find the exact HTTPError being thrown from clearbit and import that if the first option doesn't work.