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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+
+    @author: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@sabayon.org>
+    @contact: lxnay@sabayon.org
+    @copyright: Fabio Erculiani
+    @license: GPL-2
+
+    B{Entropy Framework repository exceptions module}.
+
+"""
+import sys
+
+# this is used for documentation purposes
+
+class Warning(Exception):
+    """ Exception raised for important warnings like data
+        truncations while inserting, etc. It must be a subclass of
+        the Python StandardError (defined in the module exceptions). """
+
+class Error(Exception):
+    """ Exception that is the base class of all other error
+        exceptions. You can use this to catch all errors with one
+        single 'except' statement. Warnings are not considered
+        errors and thus should not use this class as base. It must
+        be a subclass of the Python StandardError (defined in the
+        module exceptions). """
+
+class InterfaceError(Error):
+    """ Exception raised for errors that are related to the
+        database interface rather than the database itself.  It
+        must be a subclass of Error. """
+
+class DatabaseError(Error):
+    """ Exception raised for errors that are related to the
+        database.  It must be a subclass of Error. """
+
+class DataError(Error):
+    """ Exception raised for errors that are due to problems with
+        the processed data like division by zero, numeric value
+        out of range, etc. It must be a subclass of DatabaseError. """
+
+class OperationalError(Error):
+    """ Exception raised for errors that are related to the
+        database's operation and not necessarily under the control
+        of the programmer, e.g. an unexpected disconnect occurs,
+        the data source name is not found, a transaction could not
+        be processed, a memory allocation error occurred during
+        processing, etc.  It must be a subclass of DatabaseError. """
+
+class IntegrityError(Error):
+    """ Exception raised when the relational integrity of the
+        database is affected, e.g. a foreign key check fails.  It
+        must be a subclass of DatabaseError. """
+
+class InternalError(Error):
+    """ Exception raised when the database encounters an internal
+        error, e.g. the cursor is not valid anymore, the
+        transaction is out of sync, etc.  It must be a subclass of
+        DatabaseError. """
+
+class ProgrammingError(Error):
+    """ Exception raised for programming errors, e.g. table not
+        found or already exists, syntax error in the SQL
+        statement, wrong number of parameters specified, etc.  It
+        must be a subclass of DatabaseError. """
+
+class NotSupportedError(Error):
+    """ Exception raised in case a method or database API was used
+        which is not supported by the database, e.g. requesting a
+        .rollback() on a connection that does not support
+        transaction or has transactions turned off.  It must be a
+        subclass of DatabaseError. """
+
+_exc_types = ('DataError', 'DatabaseError', 'Error', 'IntegrityError',
+    'InterfaceError', 'InternalError', 'NotSupportedError', 'OperationalError',
+    'ProgrammingError', 'Warning')
+
+# Do NOT remove this, TODO: make this pluggable
+# This is the actual exception wrapper
+from sqlite3 import dbapi2
+_mod = sys.modules[__name__]
+for _exc_type in _exc_types:
+    setattr(_mod, _exc_type, getattr(dbapi2, _exc_type, None))
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