[Tutor] capturing errors/exceptions..

[bruce]

Hi.

Really basic question!!

Got a chunk of some test python, trying to figure out a quick/easy way
to capture all/any errors/exceptions that get thrown..

For the test process, I need to "ensure" that I capture any/all
potential errors..

-Could/Should I wrap the entire func in a try/catch when I call the
function from the parent process?
-Should I have separate try/catch blocks within the function?
-The test py app is being run from the CLI, is there a py command line
attribute that auto captures all errors?


Any thoughts..

Thanks!



A sample of the test code is:

def getParseCollegeFacultyList1(url, content):

  s=content

  s=s.replace(" ","")

  if(debug==1):
    print "s="+s

  url=url.strip("/")

  #got the page/data... parse it and get the "schools"..
  #use the "dept" list as the school

  # s contains HTML not XML text
  d = libxml2dom.parseString(s, html=1)

  ###########################################################
  #--
  #--create the output data file for the registrar/start data
  #--
  #--
  ###########################################################


#term_in=201336&&sel_subj=ACCT

  if(debug==1):
    print "inside parse state/college function \n"

  #-----------Form------------

  #fetch the option val/text for the "depts" which are used
  #as the dept abbrv/name on the master side
  #-- the school matches the dept...
  #-- this results in separate packets for each dept

  p="//a[contains(@href,'SelectTeacher') and @id='last']//attribute::href"
  ap="//a[contains(@href,'campusRatings.jsp')]//attribute::href"

  hpath="//div[@id='profInfo']/ul/li[1]//a/attribute::href"    #
-get the college website
  cpath="//div[@id='profInfo']/ul/li[2]/text()"
#-get the city,state
  colpath="//h2/text()"                                #-college name

  xpath="//a[contains(@title,'school id:')]/attribute::href"

  hh_ = d.xpath(hpath)
  cc_ = d.xpath(cpath)
  col_ = d.xpath(colpath)
  ap_ = d.xpath(ap)

  if(debug==1):
    print "hhl "+str(len(hh_))
    print "ccl "+str(len(cc_))


  web=""
  if (len(hh_)>0):
    web=hh_[0].textContent

  city=""
  if (len(cc_)>0):
    city=cc_[0].textContent

  colname=""
  if (len(col_)>0):
    colname=col_[0].textContent

  colname=colname.encode('ascii', 'ignore').strip()


  #
  # set up out array
  #
  ret={}
  out={}
  row={}
  jrow=""

  ndx=0

  pcount_ = d.xpath(p)
  if(len(pcount_)==0):

    #at least one success/entry.. but apparently only a single page..
    status=True

    #count=pcount_[0].textContent.strip()
    #countp=count.split('&pageNo=')
    #count=countp[1]
    #rr=countp[0]

    if(len(ap_)==1):
      idd=ap_[0].textContent.strip()
      idd=idd.split("?sid=")
      idd=idd[1].split("&")
      idd=idd[0].strip()

      nurl=url+"/SelectTeacher.jsp?sid="+idd+"&pageNo=1"
      #nurl=url+"&pageNo=1"

      row={}
      row['WriteData']=True
      row['tmp5']=web
      row['tmp6']=city
      row['tmp7']=colname
      row['tmp8']=nurl

      #don't json for now
      #jrow=simplejson.dumps(row)
      jrow=row
      out[ndx]=jrow

      ndx = ndx+1

  else:
    #at least one success/entry.. set the status
    status=True

    count=pcount_[0].textContent.strip()
    countp=count.split('&pageNo=')
    count=countp[1]
    rr=countp[0]

    if(debug==1):
      print "c ="+str(count)+"\n"

    for t in range(1,int(count)+1):
      nurl=url+rr+"&pageNo="+str(t)

      if(debug==1):
        print "nurl = "+nurl+"\n"

      row={}
      row['WriteData']=True
      row['tmp5']=web
      row['tmp6']=city
      row['tmp7']=colname
      row['tmp8']=nurl

      #don't json for now
      #jrow=simplejson.dumps(row)
      jrow=row
      out[ndx]=jrow

      ndx = ndx+1


  ret['data']=simplejson.dumps(out)
  ret['count']=ndx
  ret['status']=status
  return(ret)