From da0f23e2165a26d5c243cab82df8b1ee27bc591e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Trail <napalm10@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:18:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Catch HTTP errors (504, 500, whatever) when doing r.login()

---
 shreddit | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/shreddit b/shreddit
index 283d8ef..7911c57 100755
--- a/shreddit
+++ b/shreddit
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python2
 
-import praw
+import praw, argparse, ConfigParser
 from praw.objects import Comment, Submission
-import ConfigParser
-import argparse
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from re import sub
-
+from time import sleep
 try:
 	from loremipsum import get_sentence
 except:
@@ -38,7 +36,13 @@ _pass = config.get('main', 'password')
 r = praw.Reddit(user_agent="Shreddit-PRAW 2.1")
 
 if _user and _pass:
-	r.login(_user, _pass)
+	try:
+		r.login(_user, _pass)
+	except HTTPError:
+		# Try again (often get 500 errors)
+		sleep(10)
+		r.login(_user, _pass)
+
 else:
 	r.login()