[Python-ideas] Error messages for shared libraries for other platform

[Ryan]

Well, the error seems to follow this pattern:

ImportError: Cannot load library: loadsegments[number]: *number* cannot map segment from `library.so` at ...

On Windows, it always says '%1 is not a valid Win32 application'

So, could you catch the exceptions and compare the string or perform a regex match or the like?

Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I suspect that on most platforms, we just get a NULL return from
>dlopen, call dlerror, and use the error string it returns. A quick test
>on OS X seems to bear that out. So, short of parsing the dlerror string
>(or trying to parse the elf/mach-o/etc. headers ourselves), I'm not
>sure what we could do.
>
>Sent from a random iPhone
>
>On Aug 4, 2013, at 23:01, Ryan <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't really know C. At all. I was thinking the errors could be
>caught at a higher level, something like(the code isn't runnable):
>> 
>> except windowserror as ex:
>> if ex.string == '%1 is not...:
>> raise_error_here
>> 
>> 
>> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Do you know how to fix this?
>>> 
>>> On Sunday, August 4, 2013, Ryan wrote:
>>>> Here are my experiences in accidently getting a .so/.dll file for
>the wrong chip/CPU type:
>>>> 
>>>> Windows:
>>>> 
>>>> %1 is not a valid Win32 application
>>>> 
>>>> *nix/Android:
>>>> 
>>>> A long message about improper memory mappings and such.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like to propose the concept of better errors in these cases.
>Both Windows and Posix errors is this case are horrible, and it'd be
>nice for them to actually be written in English.
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>> 
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