improving performance of writing into a pipe

[mikprog at gmail.com]

On Monday, February 18, 2013 6:12:01 PM UTC, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 10:00 AM, mikprog at gmail.com wrote:
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> > [..]
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> >>
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> >> I don't see an exception in your answer. Where did you put it for us?
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> >>
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> > 
> 
> > well I just did print a message:
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> > 
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> >     PIPEPATH = ["/tmp/mypipe"]
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> > 
> 
> > [..]
> 
> >         try:
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> >             self.process = os.popen( self.PIPEPATH, 'w')
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> >         except:
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> >             print "Error while trying opening the pipe!"
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> >             print "check: ", self.PIPEPATH
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> >             exit()
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> > 
> 
> > I see the error messages.
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> 
> 
> Unfortunately your attempt to catch this exception is hiding the true
> 
> cause.  You need to give us the actual exception.  Otherwise it could be
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> anything from self.PIPEPATH not existing to who knows what.
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> 
> 
> Almost never do you want to catch all exceptions like you're doing.  You
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> should only catch the specific exceptions you know how to deal with in
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> your code.
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> 
> 
> For testing purposes, if your code really is as you put it, then
> catching exceptions is kind of silly since you're just re-raising the
> exception (sort of) but without any contextual information that would
> make the error meaningful.


Ok, I get your point.
But on the other hand how do I know what to catch if I have no clue what is causing the error?
There must be a way to catch all the possible errors and then investigate what is the problem, right? (which is not what I have done so far).

Or rather: what would you try to catch in this particular case?

Thanks