"tac-tics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a program which has a GUI front-end which that runs a separate > thread to handle all the important stuff. However, if there is a > problem with the important stuff, I want the GUI to raise a MessageBox > alert to indicate this. > > For exceptions, I can simply use a catch-all except statement like: > > try: > ... > except Exception, error: > JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(self, "Error: %s" % error) > > Only, I want it to catch Errors as well. Right now, I'm using: > > try: > ... > except (Exception, TypeError, NameError, RuntimeError, AttributeError), > error: > JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(self, "Error: %s" % error) > > I was wondering if there is a superclass for TypeError, NameError, > RuntimeError, AttributeError, etc.
See http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html#BuiltInExc I would guess you're looking for StandardError. -- Christian Joergensen | Linux, programming or web consultancy http://www.razor.dk | Visit us at: http://www.gmta.info -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
