error handling

[Chris]

I want to do this because there are several spots in my program where
an error might occur that I want to handle the same way, but I don't
want to rewrite the try..except block again. Is that clearer?

And I meant sys.stderr... sorry 'bout that

Simon Forman wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > I want to handle errors for a program i'm building in a specific way,
> > but I don't want to use try/except/finally because it requires forming
> > new blocks of code. I want to be able things like this:
> >
> > a = [2, 423, "brownie", 234.34]
> > try: a[890]
> > except IndexError: # I don't use 'finally' here because I specifically
> > want to check for an IndexError
> >      sys.exit("That number is way too big!")
> >
> > But sometimes you can have too many of these statements in your
> > program, and it starts to get tangled and nasty looking. Is there a way
> > I can modify sys.error so that when the interpreter comes accross an
> > IndexError it prints "That number is way too big!" before it exits?
>
> You don't want to do what because why?  Huh?
>
> I'm sorry man, I don't want to be harsh, but use try..except blocks.
>
> If your code is getting "tangled and nasty looking" you probably need
> to break it up into small[er] functions, or redesign it somehow.
>
> Peace,
> ~Simon
>
> (Also, there's no such thing as sys.error, do you mean
> sys.excepthook()?)