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

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:26, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>> 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)?
>>
>> Use case: I write my code, adding nice exceptions to handle all the
>> things that could go wrong. In particular, I want some errors to be
>> pretty much ignored.
>
> But you want them still logged as errors?

Yes. Log something, keep rolling with the good times.

> I would say for always logging any exceptions that are thrown except
> in corner cases where you can check before trying if that operation
> will fail.
>
> You can print the stack trace from the handler with traceback.format_exc()

Ah, good trick. Probably that'd saved the day too.


> That will reraise the exception that is being handled, useful when you
> want to cleanup something, but then let the exception keep flowing as
> usual.

Yep - sounds reasonable.

thanks!



m
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