Exception classes

The following Akismet-specific exception classes may be raised while using the Akismet API clients:

exception akismet.AkismetError

Base exception class for Akismet errors.

exception akismet.APIKeyError

Raised when the supplied Akismet API key/URL are invalid according to the verify-key operation.

This is a subclass of ConfigurationError. If you want to detect the specific case of an invalid key/URL, catch this exception, while if you just want to catch all configuration-related errors (including missing configuration), catch ConfigurationError instead.

exception akismet.ConfigurationError

Raised when an Akismet configuration error is detected (config missing or invalid).

exception akismet.RequestError

Raised when an unexpected error occurred when making a request to Akismet.

This is almost always going to be a chained exception wrapping an underlying error from the HTTP client, so inspecting the exception chain may yield useful debugging information.

exception akismet.ProtocolError

Raised when an unexpected or non-standard response was received from Akismet.

exception akismet.UnknownArgumentError

Raised when an unknown argument was used as part of an API request.