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Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up

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On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Veek. M <vek.m1234@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm parsing html and i'm doing:
>
> x = root.find_class(...
> y = root.find_class(..
> z = root.find_class(..
>
> all 3 are likely to fail so typically i'd have to stick it in a try. This is
> a huge pain for obvious reasons.
>
> try:
>  ....
> except something:
>  x = 'default_1'
> (repeat 3 times)
>
> Is there some other nice way to wrap this stuff up?

I'm not sure what you're using to parse HTML here (there are several
libraries for doing that), but the first thing I'd look for is an
option to have it return a default if it doesn't find something - even
if that default has to be (say) None.

But failing that, you can always write your own wrapper:

def find_class(root, ...):
    try:
        return root.find_class(...)
    except something:
        return 'default_1'

Or have the default as a parameter, if it's different for the different ones.

ChrisA

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x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up "Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 10:28 +0530
  Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 16:23 +1100
    Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up "Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 11:59 +0530
      Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up "Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 12:01 +0530
      Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-31 20:21 +1100
        Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 20:40 +1100
          Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-31 21:14 +1100
            Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 00:27 +1100
      Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-31 11:40 +0100
      Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-31 13:27 -0800
  Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-31 18:22 +1100
  Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up "Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 20:55 +0530
  Re: x=something, y=somethinelse and z=crud all likely to fail - how do i wrap them up Vincent Davis <vincent@vincentdavis.net> - 2016-02-01 11:40 -0700

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