On May 17, 7:51 am, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 16, 4:22 pm, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > HMS Surprise wrote: > > > I read in the ref man that try-except-finally did not work in earlier > > > versions, I am using jython 2.2. Does this imply that try-except > > > without finally does not work either? I get a syntax error on the else > > > below. Some of the functions embedded in the try section try to > > > convert strings to ints, etc and may fail on bad data, thus try seemed > > > like a good start for a workaround. > > > > Thanks, > > > > jh > > > > #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > def restoreDevice(self, deviceId, closeTime = time()): > > > self.logon() > > > try: > > > lst = self.getLastUpdatedDevice(deviceId) > > > lastUpdated = lst[0] > > > incidentId = lst[1] > > > print 'L', lastUpdated, 'I', incidentId > > > self.restore(incidentId, lastUpdated) > > > except: > > > else: > > > print "couldn't find incident" > > > The except: block still needs something in it, even if it is just "pass". > > For sake of demonstration: > > def restoreDevice(self, deviceId, closeTime = time()): > self.logon() > try: > lst = self.getLastUpdatedDevice(deviceId) > lastUpdated = lst[0] > incidentId = lst[1] > print 'L', lastUpdated, 'I', incidentId > self.restore(incidentId, lastUpdated) > except: > pass > else: > print "couldn't find incident" > > > -- > > Robert Kern > > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma > > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it > > had > > an underlying truth." > > -- Umberto Eco
Thanks folks. Found my error but I didn't know of pass option..... Wanted to get back in earlier and state I found the error but Google groups seemed to be down for half a day.... jvh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
