> > That's why you should write an error log ;)
The error log is a valid point. Is there a way to capture the error messages that go the the terminal window or command prompt rather than all my print statements? Can this be set up as a global thing for the whole application rather than inside each thread? try: > put your function here > except: > print 'oops! an error occurred!' > I'll probably resort to this and have done in a couple of other occasions, but thought it was generally frowned upon! I Guess I could do that and print out anything caught by the exception into a log and go more specific at a later date. Cheers, Wesley Brooks > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Wesley Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Unfortunately due to the nature of the program the error has normally >> happened hours ago and the error message has disappeared from the buffer of >> the command prompt. >> > > That's why you should write an error log ;) > > >> >> This is the function: >> >> def CommandFileWriter(self, command): >> name1 = os.path.join(self.commandsdir, command + '.temp') >> name2 = os.path.join(self.commandsdir, command) >> comfile = open(name1, 'w') >> comfile.close() >> if not os.path.exists(name2): >> os.rename(name1, name2) >> else: >> os.remove(name1) >> >> This was the best way I could come up with doing the function. So the file >> is written to the correct directory with a wrong name (so the other program >> will ignore it) then it's name is changed to the correct name with >> os.rename. Unfortunately I think in freak occations the other program can >> read and delete the file (running on a multicore processor system) during >> the rename operation. Can you suggest which errors I should be trying to >> catch? >> > > I'm not sure what errors to catch, but it's always possible to use a > general catchall (I'm not sure if this is particularly pythonic) > > try: > put your function here > except: > print 'oops! an error occurred!' > > Or do something besides print an error (such as write a message to a > logfile. If you include the time stamp and some other info that might be > helpful that may give you some more insight as to where the problem is, and > if it's something you can fix.) >
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