added change to bbcapi.py

Author: hako

bbcli/bbcapi.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import arrow
 import requests
 import arrow
-import sys
+import os
 
 API_BASE_URL = "http://trevor-producer-cdn.api.bbci.co.uk"
 BBC_URL = "http://www.bbc.co.uk"
@@ -70,9 +70,12 @@ def get_bbc_story(self):
         try:
             res = requests.get(API_BASE_URL + "/content/cps/news/front_page", data=None, headers=headers)
         except requests.ConnectionError as e:
-                print "\n" + e.args[0][0]
-                print 'Reason:', e.args[0][1]
-                sys.exit()
+            if hasattr(e, 'reason'):
+                print 'We failed to reach a server.'
+                print 'Reason: ', e.reason
+            elif hasattr(e, 'code'):
+                print 'The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.'
+                print 'Error code: ', e.code
         return res
 
     def get_bbc_ticker(self):
@@ -83,9 +86,12 @@ def get_bbc_ticker(self):
         try:
             res = requests.get(BBC_URL + "/news/10284448/ticker.sjson", data=None, headers=ua)
         except requests.ConnectionError as e:
-                print "\n" + e.args[0][0]
-                print 'Reason:', e.args[0][1]
-                sys.exit()
+            if hasattr(e, 'reason'):
+                print 'We failed to reach a server.'
+                print 'Reason: ', e.reason
+            elif hasattr(e, 'code'):
+                print 'The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.'
+                print 'Error code: ', e.code
         return res
 
 class News():