While loop

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi,

Fab86 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently working on my program which send queries to Yahoo and
> then saves them into a flatfile. The problem I have is that I need to
> conduct 200 searches and Yahoo typically times out during the search
> with an error. I have caught the error and told it to time.sleep(10)
> however I can only think of deleting the flatfile and starting again
> hoping that it will not time out again.
> 
> Is it possible to get the program to catch the exception, wait 10
> seconds, then carry of from where it was rather than starting again?
> 
> If so, could someone please inform me how to do this?

for search in range(200):
     for t in range(MAXRETRY):
     	try:
         	result=requestfromserver(...)
                 break
     	except IOError,e: # or whaterver error you get
             time.sleep(10)
             # log something ...
     else: # if above runs w/o break
         raise XYZError...() # define appropriate for your app

     # here you can work with result


HTH
Tino
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