[Sugar-devel] Ignoring certain exceptions while debugging...?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:24, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Having said that, there's a bug. The 'except' line in the patch should
>> be a bare 'except:'.
>
> In my last patch, I mistakenly committed an 'except IOError:' instead
> of a bare 'except:'. I changed the exception as a debugging measure:
> for that particular try/except, I wanted to _see_ the exception.
>
> Commenting out the try/except lines doesn't work very well with this
> whitespace-panicy interpreter, unfortunately, and de-indenting and
> re-indenting large chunks of code has its own risks because we don't
> have start/end block braces.
>
> So I was a little bit stuck on this -- catching a narrower exception
> sounded like a good temporary hack, and got me through... but then got
> through my pre-commit review. It looks like an honest exception!
>
> Is there a better way?

Sorry about the late reply. I'm having trouble understanding the
doubt, can you reformulate your question (if it's still valid)?

Thanks,

Tomeu