How to trap this error (comes from sqlite3)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 09/02/2016 11:57, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> I have the following code snippet populating a wxPython grid with data
> from a database. :-
>
>          #
>          #
>          # populate grid with data
>          #
>          all = self.cur.execute("SELECT * from " + table + " ORDER by id ")
>          for row in all:
>              row_num = row[0]
>              cells = row[1:]
>              for col in range(len(cells)):
>                  if cells[col] != None and cells[col] != "null":
>                      xx = cells[col]
>                      if not isinstance(xx, basestring):
>                          xx = str(xx)
>                      print("row: ",row_num, "col: ", col, "value: ", xx)

The usual way of writing the above loop is:-

for cell in cells:
     if cell != None and cell != "null":
         xx = cell
         if not isinstance(xx, basestring):
             xx = str(xx)

>
>                      self.SetCellValue(row_num, col, xx)
>
>
> It works fine until it hits an invalid character in one of the
> columns.  The print is just a temporary diagnostic.
>
> The output I get, when it hits an invalid character is:-
>
>      ('row: ', 5814, 'col: ', 9, 'value: ', u'')
>      ('row: ', 5814, 'col: ', 10, 'value: ', '10.5')
>      ('row: ', 5814, 'col: ', 11, 'value: ', u'')
>      ('row: ', 5814, 'col: ', 12, 'value: ', u' Fuel (with inter-tank tap open) is at about 10.5 - 11cm in the sight glass before setting out.')
>      ('row: ', 6186, 'col: ', 0, 'value: ', '0')
>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>        File "/home/chris/bin/pg.py", line 100, in <module>
>          grid = Grid(frame, dbCon, table)
>        File "/home/chris/bin/pg.py", line 52, in __init__
>          self.SetCellValue(row_num, col, xx)
>        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/grid.py", line 2016, in SetCellValue
>          return _grid.Grid_SetCellValue(*args, **kwargs)
>      sqlite3.OperationalError: Could not decode to UTF-8 column 'dayno' with text '�'
>
>
> It's absolutely right, there is a non-UTF character in the column.
> However I don't want to have to clean up the data, it would take
> rather a long time.  How can I trap the error and just put a Null or
> zero in the datagrid?
>
> Where do I put the try:/except: ?
>

The rule is always keep the try/except to the bare minimum hence.

try:
     self.SetCellValue(row_num, col, xx)
except sqlite3.OperationalError:
     doSomething()

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Mark Lawrence