[C++-sig] Re: Python exceptions

[David Abrahams]

Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:12 -0800, Garrick Meeker wrote:
>> I'm porting some old code to boost.  I have a function that returns a 
>> PyObject* and if an error occurs it calls 
>> PyErr_SetString(PyExc_AttributeError, "...") and returns NULL.  No C++ 
>> exceptions are involved.  With boost, however, the NULL is converted to 
>> None.
>> 
>> How can I generate an AttributeError exception?  All I see from the docs 
>> is that I could define a new class, call 
>> register_exception_translator(), and throw this class.  Since I'm not 
>> dealing with existing exception classes, is there a simpler, built-in 
>> way?  Something like:
>> 
>> throw boost::python::exception(PyExc_AttributeError, "error string");
>> 
> 
> 
> See: http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/v2/errors.htm

http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/v2/errors.html
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