Extend DNSExceptions with human-readable messages

[spacekpe]

Hello!

I wonder if you are open to accepting patches which would add human-readable messages to DNSException messsages.

The motivation is that currently dnspython users have to implement own logic which catches exceptions e.g. from resolver.query and translates them to meanigful messages for users. I had to do that myself several time.

I propose to add generic but explanatory text messages like 'YXDOMAIN from 192.0.2.1 when querying for x.y.z.example.' to DNSExceptions so dnspython users could simply do str(e) and be done with it.

Are you okay with the idea?

[rthalley]

On Dec 2, 2014, at 01:43, spacekpe notifications@github.com wrote:
Are you okay with the idea?

Yeah, that sounds useful, thanks!

/Bob

[spacekpe]

Bob, could you look at #85? Does it look okay? Could it be merged or should I fix something there?

[rthalley]

On Feb 7, 2015, at 09:11, spacekpe notifications@github.com wrote:

Bob, could you look at #85 #85? Does it look okay? Could it be merged or should I fix something there?

It's looking very nice; I've just been busy with other stuff. Will try to get it (and the python 3 branch) merged very soon.

Thanks!

/Bob

[spacekpe]

@rthalley the pull request #85 contains Python 3 branch too, I hope it helps :-)

[spacekpe]

Merged.