"Wrap" a python-cgi

Franz GEIGER fgeiger at datec.at
Fri Mar 9 01:56:14 EST 2001


Have a look at Webware (currently 0.5). There's a lot more you can rely on
to make your "CGI life" easier...

Regards
Franz

"Hermann Himmelbauer" <dusty at strike.wu-wien.ac.at> wrote in message
news:3aa7c5f9$0$21482 at SSP1NO25.highway.telekom.at...
> Hi,
> I am currently using python for several cgi programs. One problem is that
> if my cgi-script has a bug it exits with an exception and the user gets an
> ugly error message done by the webserver.
>
> I would like to put some really simple "bugfree" (if something like this
> can exist :-) "wrapper" around my cgi-scripts, let it trap Exceptions, log
> the error and let it output a nice error page to the user.
>
> My first approach would perhaps be to wrap the whole script into a "try:
> except" clause but at first I don't know if nested try/except clauses are
> allowed and moreover the whole script looks somehow ugly as every line is
> indented.
>
> Perhaps you know a better solution?
>
>                 Best Regards,
>                 Hermann
>
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