KeyError

Roland Heiber roland.heiber at web.de
Thu Dec 16 05:27:57 EST 2004


Doran_Dermot at emc.com wrote:
> Hi "R",
> 
> The only explanation I can give is that the environment varialbe REMOTE_ADDR
> does not exist!  Wrap your high-level code with try and except. Example:
> try:
>  tablesDirectory = tablesDirectoryPrefix + os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR']
> except KeyError:
>   # Code to  handle the fact tht REMOT_ADDR does not exist. 

... or just replace os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] with 
os.environ.get('REMOTE_ADDR', 'enter_default_here') to use a default in 
case of missing REMOTE_ADDR ...

HtH, Roland



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