Catching exceptions from C/C++ extensions

[Andrew Gregory]

> Does:
> 
>     import mymodule
> 
>     try:
>         y = myfunc()
>     except mymodule.Myerror:

Thanks for the suggestion, but tried that. Get

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute "Myerror'

Andrew.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Bennetts [mailto:andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org]
> Sent: 13 January 2003 13:38
> To: Andrew Gregory
> Cc: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Catching exceptions from C/C++ extensions
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

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