Some TwitterErrors more verbose than others

[bmurauer]

When i try to fetch a timeline of a user that has marked the timeline private, i get a TwitterError with no status code, just a message String "Not authorized.". It is a bit tedious to match for this, as it it directly forwarded by the API from twitter. I wonder why other errors have status codes in them, making it easier to match them.
Also, for this special case, Twitter has defined an error code:
179 - Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status
Is this something that is in the scope of this library to change or does Twitter just send no status code?

[bear]

We would need to see if Twitter is returning more information in the html or json payload when it returns an error state.
if you have a test api call could you enable debugHTTP=True in your API setup - this will dump all of the http data. If the error code is present in the returned payload we could code to parse that.

[exp2Tapavicki]

Payload:
{
"request": "/1.1/friends/list.json",
"error": "Not authorized."
}

This happens only for some specific twitter ids. I got it like 20 from 20000. I have solve this issue not to break my script and to try multiple times with code below.

for i in range(5): try: friends = self.api.GetFriends( user_id=twitter_id, screen_name=None, cursor=None, count=None, total_count=total_count, skip_status=True, include_user_entities=False ) except Exception as e: print(str(e)) time.sleep(8) if friends is not None: break

Hope this helps.