Handle 500 errors better.

diff --git a/tweepy/binder.py b/tweepy/binder.py
index c91b68f0c8226e23df3f0cc21831c89c67ecf731..5b3fe62bb7c727e65cc6eb708b6c496dac4b6f8f 100644 (file)
--- a/tweepy/binder.py
+++ b/tweepy/binder.py
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ def bind_api(path, parser, allowed_param=None, method='GET', require_auth=False,
     resp = conn.getresponse()
 
     # If an error was returned, throw an exception
+    if resp.status == 500:
+      raise TweepError('Twitter server error!')
     if resp.status != 200:
       raise TweepError(parse_error(resp.read()))