defining, raising and catching exceptions

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Chris Hare wrote:
> okay - but why does the response come back like
> 
> No such file or directory
> def b
> ('n', 'e', 't', ' ', 'a', 'l', 'r', 'e', 'a', 'd', 'y', ' ', 'r', 'u', 'n', 'n', 'i', 'n', 'g')
> 
The class Exception saves its arguments in the 'args' instance
attribute, and when it prints the exception it prints those arguments:


 >>> e = Exception(1, 2, 3)
 >>> print e.args
(1, 2, 3)
 >>> print e
(1, 2, 3)
 >>> print repr(e)
Exception(1, 2, 3)


NetActiveError inherits from RuntimeError, and ultimately from
Exception.

NetActiveError sets the 'args' attribute to its single string argument,
and when the exception is printed out it thinks it's the arguments:


 >>> e.args = "string"
 >>> print e
('s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g')
 >>> print repr(e)
Exception('s', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g')


The correct way to create your own exceptions is to call the
superclass's __init__ method:


 >>> class NetActiveError(RuntimeError):
...     def __init__(self, error):
...         RuntimeError.__init__(self, error)
...
 >>> e = NetActiveError("string")
 >>> print e
string
 >>> print repr(e)
NetActiveError('string',)


> 
> On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
> 
>> What makes you think it has to do with user-defined exceptions?
>>
>>>>> try :
>> ...    raise Exception("hello")
>> ... except Exception as (errno, errText) :
>> ...   print "whatever"
>> ...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> ValueError: need more than 1 values to unpack
>>
>> An Exception is an object, not a tuple of number and text.
>>
>> Raise an instance of the exception, not the class:
>>
>> raise NetActiveError("net already running")
>>
>> And then catch the exception object
>>
>> except NetActiveError as err:
>>   print err.args
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Chris Hare <chare at labr.net> wrote:
>>> I have a block of test code, where I am trying to raise and catch my own user defined exception
>>>
>>> class NetActiveError(RuntimeError):
>>>    def __init__(self,error):
>>>        self.args = error
>>>
>>> def a():
>>>    try:
>>>        fh = open("me.txt", "r")
>>>    except Exception as (errno, errText):
>>>        print errText
>>>    try:
>>>        b()
>>>    except NetActiveError as (errono, errText):
>>>        print errno, errText
>>>
>>> def b():
>>>    print "def b"
>>>    raise NetActiveError,"net already running"
>>>
>>>
>>> a()
>>>
>>>
>>> When I run it though, I get the following error:
>>>
>>> chare$ python z
>>> No such file or directory
>>> def b
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "z", line 20, in <module>
>>>    a()
>>>  File "z", line 12, in a
>>>    except NetActiveError as (errono, errText):
>>> ValueError: too many values to unpack
>>>
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong here?
>>>