On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 03:44:28PM -0400, Alex Hall wrote:
> You're not missing anything; I wasn't clear. I wasn't sure if raise or
> sys.exit(1) were the preferred ways, or if there was some other way I
> didn't know about. I've never had to force a script to halt before, at
> least not one I mean
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 02:11:01PM -0400, Alex Hall wrote:
> As a quick aside, is there an easy way to halt script execution for some
> exceptions? Right now, catching them means that execution continues, but I
> sometimes want to log the problem and then abort the script, as the error
> means it
On Wed, 25 May 2016, Alex Hall wrote:
You're not missing anything; I wasn't clear. I wasn't sure if raise or
sys.exit(1) were the preferred ways, or if there was some other way I
didn't know about.
If you're aborting because of the exception after unsuccessfully trying to
handle it, you can a
You're not missing anything; I wasn't clear. I wasn't sure if raise or
sys.exit(1) were the preferred ways, or if there was some other way I
didn't know about. I've never had to force a script to halt before, at
least not one I mean to schedule to run on its own once a day, so wanted to
check that
Well, I found the major problem: I had
logging.exception()
not
logger.exception()
All I can say is, with the screen reader I'm using, they sound similar.
Things are now working as expected. I'm still wondering about stopping
execution, though: call exit(), raise, or some other way?
On Wed, May 25
Alex Hall wrote:
> Hello again list,
> I didn't expect to be back so soon. :) I'm trying to log my new script,
> and logger.info() works fine. However, logger.exception() doesn't; I see
> the exception print to stderr, and it never appears in the log. Oddly,
> info messages after that appear in th
On 25/05/16 19:11, Alex Hall wrote:
> As a quick aside, is there an easy way to halt script execution for some
> exceptions? Right now, catching them means that execution continues, but I
> sometimes want to log the problem and then abort the script, as the error
> means it shouldn't continue. Tha
Hello again list,
I didn't expect to be back so soon. :) I'm trying to log my new script, and
logger.info() works fine. However, logger.exception() doesn't; I see the
exception print to stderr, and it never appears in the log. Oddly, info
messages after that appear in the shell and in my log, where
