requests.exceptions.RequestException: General request failure

RequestException: General failure

$ python -c "import requests; raise requests.exceptions.RequestException('something went wrong')"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
requests.exceptions.RequestException: something went wrong

Why this happens

This is the base class for Requests exceptions. It appears when catching broadly or raising manually.

Fix

Catch specific exceptions first; log details (URL, status, headers) for diagnostics.

Wrong code

import requests
try:
    requests.get('https://example.com')
except requests.exceptions.RequestException:
    print('failed')

Fixed code

import requests
try:
    r = requests.get('https://example.com', timeout=5)
    r.raise_for_status()
except (requests.exceptions.Timeout,
        requests.exceptions.ConnectionError,
        requests.exceptions.HTTPError) as e:
    print('specific failure:', e)