Catching exceptions from C/C++ extensions

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:37:06AM -0800, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> I've written an extension which defines it's own exception class:
> 
> // In initialisation section
>    static PyObject* Myerror;
> 
>    Myerror = PyErr_NewException("_mymodule.Myerror", NULL, NULL);

[..snip..]

> Which is just what I would expect. But if in a script file I have
> something like
> 
> import mymodule
> 
>   try:
>       y=myfunc()
>   except Myerror:
> 
> I get
> 
>   NameError: name 'Myerror' is not defined 

Does:

    import mymodule

    try:
        y = myfunc()
    except mymodule.Myerror:
        ...

do what you want?

-Andrew.