Only AttributeError can be raised in this situation - on systems without

Skip Montanaro · Skip Montanaro · commit 91cc17d20e0a · 2002-03-23T05:58:52.000Z
getuid or getpid.  posix_getuid &amp; posix_getpid never raise exceptions when
called with no args.
diff --git a/Lib/mimetools.py b/Lib/mimetools.py
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ def choose_boundary():
         hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
         try:
             uid = `os.getuid()`
-        except:
+        except AttributeError:
             uid = '1'
         try:
             pid = `os.getpid()`
-        except:
+        except AttributeError:
             pid = '1'
         _prefix = hostid + '.' + uid + '.' + pid
     timestamp = '%.3f' % time.time()
