Merge pull request #9315 from pradyunsg/better-search-errors

Author: pradyunsg

Diff for: news/9315.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Improve presentation of XMLRPC errors in pip search.

Diff for: src/pip/_internal/commands/search.py

@@ -77,7 +77,14 @@ def search(self, query, options):
 
         transport = PipXmlrpcTransport(index_url, session)
         pypi = xmlrpc_client.ServerProxy(index_url, transport)
-        hits = pypi.search({'name': query, 'summary': query}, 'or')
+        try:
+            hits = pypi.search({'name': query, 'summary': query}, 'or')
+        except xmlrpc_client.Fault as fault:
+            message = "XMLRPC request failed [code: {code}]\n{string}".format(
+                code=fault.faultCode,
+                string=fault.faultString,
+            )
+            raise CommandError(message)
         return hits