Add more info when JSON return is not in JSON format

diff --git a/twitterclient.py b/twitterclient.py
index 01a7d3340b730bbd23c64034e510ac2c7e325802..0a54ec53b24cb6238ec4749233d245423ba2d5ce 100644 (file)
--- a/twitterclient.py
+++ b/twitterclient.py
@@ -55,7 +55,12 @@ class TwitterClient(object):
                # Make the actual call to twitter
                ret=instream.read()
                instream.close()
-               return json.loads(ret)
+               try:
+                       return json.loads(ret)
+               except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+                       print "Received non-JSON response to a JSON request!"
+                       print ret
+                       raise
 
        def list_subscribers(self):
                # Eek. It seems subscribers are paged even if we don't ask for it