Pickle Problem

[Fab86]

On Mar 4, 12:00 am, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Fab86 wrote:
> > On Mar 3, 8:59 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> >> En Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:50:25 -0200, Fab86 <fabien.h... at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> >>> On Mar 3, 6:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> >>>> En Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:39:43 -0200, Fab86 <fabien.h... at gmail.com>  
> >>>> escribió:
> >>>>> I am having a bit on an issue getting my program to work. The online
> >>>>> database which I am trying to contact keep timing out meaning I can
> >>>>> not carry out my 200 searches without being interupted.
> >>>>> I believe that the solution would be to include an exception handler
> >>>>> with a timer delay if this error occurs so wait a bit then carry on
> >>>>> however having spent hours looking at this I can not get my head
> >>>>> around how to do such a thing.
> >>>> Exactly. How to handle  
> >>>> exceptions:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html
> >>>> Use time.sleep() to wait for some  
> >>>> time:http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.sleep
> >>> Thanks for that I will give it a read.
> >>> Do I need to know what error I am getting?
> >> Usually it's best to be as specific as possible.
>
> >>> IDLE is giving me this:
> >>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>>   File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\test6.py", line
> >>> 13, in <module>
> >>>     res = srch.parse_results()
> >>>   File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\yahoo\search
> >>> \__init__.py", line 765, in parse_results
> >>>     xml = self.get_results()
> >>>   File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\yahoo\search
> >>> \__init__.py", line 738, in get_results
> >>>     stream = self.open()
> >>>   File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\yahoo\search
> >>> \__init__.py", line 723, in open
> >>>     raise SearchError(err)
> >>> SearchError: service temporarily unavailable [C:28]
> >> That means that, in line 13 of test6.py [first line in the stack trace],  
> >> after several function calls [intermediate lines in the stack trace]  
> >> leading to function open in the search package [last line of the stack  
> >> trace], a SearchError exception was raised.
> >> If you want to catch that exception:
>
> >> try:
> >>     ... some code ...
> >> except SearchError:
> >>    ... code to handle the exception ...
>
> >> How to "spell" exactly the exception name should appear in the  
> >> documentation; might be yahoo.SearchError, or yahoo.search.SearchError, or  
> >> yahoo.errors.SearchError, or similar.
>
> > I have been trying except SearchError: however I get the error:
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\timeDelay.py",
> > line 19, in <module>
> >     except SearchError:
> > NameError: name 'SearchError' is not defined
>
> > I have searched all documents for terms along the lines of searcherror
> > but am finding nothing..
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> It's defined in the module you imported to get the search functionality.

I imported:
from yahoo.search.web import WebSearch

However there is nothing re SearchError in that doc or in the .py.

I can only find a reference to SearchError in the __init__ file as a
class called SearchError