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RE: exception problem

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If you are not sure about the Exception, You can adopt a generic way of handling exception.

try:
....
except Exception,e:
	print str(e)

-Shambhu
 

-----Original Message-----
From: MRAB [mailto:python@mrabarnett.plus.com] 
Sent: 25/06/2012 4:14 AM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: exception problem

On 24/06/2012 23:26, Charles Hixson wrote:
> The code:
>                   print    ("pre-chunkLine")
>                   chunks    =    []
>                   try:
>                       chunks    =    self.chunkLine (l)
>                   except:
>                       print    ("caught exception")
>                       print (sys.exc_info()[:2])
>                   finally:
>                       print ("at finally")
>                   print ("chunks =")
>                   print (repr(chunks), ".", end = ":")
> produces this result:
>     . . ., by
> pre-chunkLine
> caught exception
> at finally
> path  3...
>
> Any suggestions as to what's wrong with the code?
> FWIW, chunkLine begins:
>       def chunkLine (self, line):
>           print    ("chunkLine: ")
>           print ("line = ", line)
>           if    line == None:
>               return    []
>           assert    (isinstance (line, str) )
>
Don't use a bare "except"; it'll catch _any__exception. Catch only what
you expect.

For all I know, it could be that the name "l" doesn't exist.

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