How do I ignore the errors thrown by the DB api?

[Ben Finney]

"fyleow" <fyleow at gmail.com> writes:

> It would be great if I could just insert values into the DB and let
> the uniqueness check at the DB level to either add or refuse the
> duplicate value.

The Pythonic way to do this is find out what exception is generated by
the event you want to handle, and handle that exception.

    record_stuff = build_new_record()
    try:
        insert_record(record_stuff)
    except FailedToInsert, e:
        handle_insert_failure(e, record_stuff)

Define each of those functions, name the actual exception class, and
you're done.

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Ben Finney