Superclass for Errors?

[Christian Joergensen]

"tac-tics" <tactics40 at gmail.com> writes:

> I have a program which has a GUI front-end which that runs a separate
> thread to handle all the important stuff. However, if there is a
> problem with the important stuff, I want the GUI to raise a MessageBox
> alert to indicate this.
>
> For exceptions, I can simply use a catch-all except statement like:
>
> try:
>     ...
> except Exception, error:
>     JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(self, "Error: %s" % error)
>
> Only, I want it to catch Errors as well. Right now, I'm using:
>
> try:
>     ...
> except (Exception, TypeError, NameError, RuntimeError, AttributeError),
> error:
>     JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(self, "Error: %s" % error)
>
> I was wondering if there is a superclass for TypeError, NameError,
> RuntimeError, AttributeError, etc.

See http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html#BuiltInExc

I would guess you're looking for StandardError.

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