from zabbix.api import ZabbixAPI
from zabbix.api import ZabbixAPIException

class ZabbixClient(ZabbixAPI):

    def __init__(self, url='http://localhost', use_authenticate=False, user='Admin', password='zabbix'):
        self.url=url
        self.use_authenticate=use_authenticate
        super(ZabbixClient,self).__init__(url=self.url,use_authenticate=self.use_authenticate, user=user, password=password)


    def delete_host(self, hostid):
        try:
            deleted=self.host.delete(hostid)
        except ZabbixAPIException as ex: <---------- here i want to use the exception imported from the zabbix.api file
            pass
            return False
        return deleted

$ python zbx-reg.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zbx-reg.py", line 12, in <module>
    from zabbix.api import ZabbixAPIException
ImportError: cannot import name ZabbixAPIException
(venv) rojo@minishift:~/os-zbx$
$ python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import zabbix.api
>>> dir (zabbix.api)
['ZabbixAPI', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__warningregistry__', 'warnings']
>>>