At 08:41 PM 1/20/2006 -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote: >Hi there, > >I'm using distutils.spawn.spawn() to run subprocesses during my >build commands. It now happens that one of those subprocesses will >return a non-zero value that doesn't strictly correspond to an error, >and thus I'd like to catch it from within my python code. > >It appears spawn() itself will raise a message containing a stringified >version of the exit code, but not the exit code itself. This seems to >imply that, in order to discriminate on the exit value, I have to >catch DistutilsExecError, and then parse the string. This seems rather >unelegant. Is there some better way ? Could the exception be modified >to contain the original code (as an integral value) ?
The answer to both questions is "probably not". The distutils haven't been under active development for some time now. You could perhaps try and submit a patch via the Python Sourceforge patch tracker; perhaps that might get a more authoritative response one way or the other. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
