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From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Op Thursday 4 Jun 2015 01:15 CEST schreef Ethan Furman:

> On 06/03/2015 01:37 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 03/06/2015 19:28, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>> On 06/03/2015 09:15 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>>
>>>> I kept the except. I like to see the message that went wrong. ;-)
>>>
>>> That's fine, but then add a `raise` after you print the error so
>>> you can see the reason that message failed.
>>>
>>
>> Why bother in the first place, especially when you're developing?
>> Far easier to let the exception bubble up, or are we talking cross
>> purposes?
>
> I think Cecil means he wants to see which twitter message failed to
> send. The rest of us would like to also have the error itself
> displayed. ;)

Correct. I display the error in the function I call. I also quit the
program in the function I call. Is the correct thing to do, but if
someone just want to continue after displaying the error, that should
be possible also. That is why I choose to implement it this way.

I should produce some docstring. ;-)

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Retrying to send message Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-03 14:27 +0200
  Re: Retrying to send message Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 23:29 +1000
    Re: Retrying to send message Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-03 18:15 +0200
      Re: Retrying to send message MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-06-03 19:12 +0100
      Re: Retrying to send message Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-06-03 11:28 -0700
      Re: Retrying to send message Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-03 21:37 +0100
      Re: Retrying to send message Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 08:00 +1000
      Re: Retrying to send message Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-06-03 16:15 -0700
        Re: Retrying to send message Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-04 07:13 +0200

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