[Tutor] Error Handling in python

[Wolfgang Maier]

On 24.07.2014 14:09, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Wolfgang Maier
> <wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>> Try something like this (assuming bash):
>>
>> python test.py
>> if [ $? = 0 ]; then
>>      python second.py
>> fi
>>
>> as your shell script.
>
> The [ ] and = should be doubled.

?? why that ?

But all this is not needed, all you need is:
>
> python test.py && python second.py

I agree, that's far more elegant in this case.

>
> However, you need to explicitly stack all the commands you want to
> execute this way — so, if there are more things, `set -e` might also
> be of use. (you would need an even uglier tree for `if`s.)
>