Trapping Exceptions

[Steve Holden]

Dale Strickland-Clark wrote:
> 
> I'm having a bit of trouble trapping an exception raised by one of my
> own classes.
> 
> The code trying to trap the exception is:
> 
> try:
>         if type(fld) == types.InstanceType:
>                 parts.append(RenderObj.Data(fld.Heading,
> fld.Description))
>         else:
>                 parts.append(RenderObj.Data(self.FieldHdr(f), fld))
> except Hell:
>         pass
> 
> The requests for the attributes of fld may raise this exception:
> 
> if self.RS is None:
>         raise Hell(21, (key, self.__class__.__name__))
> return self.FormatField(key, self.RS.Fields(key).value)
> 
> However, the exception isn't getting trapped. Now, I suspect it's
> something to do with the Hell object but I can't figure out what. My
> understanding of the docs and experiments with simpler cases suggests
> that this should work
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 

Maybe you could show us the definition of Hell (and don't say a place
where we are all forced to program in P**l :-) -- I assume you are
subclassing exceptions.Exception?

regards
 Steve
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