Superclass for Errors?

[tac-tics]

I have a program which has a GUI front-end which that runs a separate
thread to handle all the important stuff. However, if there is a
problem with the important stuff, I want the GUI to raise a MessageBox
alert to indicate this.

For exceptions, I can simply use a catch-all except statement like:

try:
...
except Exception, error:
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( self, "Error: %s" % error)

Only, I want it to catch Errors as well. Right now, I'm using:

try:
...
except (Exception, TypeError, NameError, RuntimeError, AttributeError) ,
error:
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( self, "Error: %s" % error)

I was wondering if there is a superclass for TypeError, NameError,
RuntimeError, AttributeError, etc.

Normally, I could simply use a regular

except:
....

but then I don't have access to the error message.

So what's the best solution to this problem?

[Christian Joergensen]

"tac-tics" <ta*******@gmai l.comwrites:

I have a program which has a GUI front-end which that runs a separate
thread to handle all the important stuff. However, if there is a
problem with the important stuff, I want the GUI to raise a MessageBox
alert to indicate this.

For exceptions, I can simply use a catch-all except statement like:

try:
...
except Exception, error:
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( self, "Error: %s" % error)

Only, I want it to catch Errors as well. Right now, I'm using:

try:
...
except (Exception, TypeError, NameError, RuntimeError, AttributeError) ,
error:
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( self, "Error: %s" % error)

I was wondering if there is a superclass for TypeError, NameError,
RuntimeError, AttributeError, etc.

See http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html#BuiltInExc

I would guess you're looking for StandardError.

--
Christian Joergensen | Linux, programming or web consultancy
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[Carsten Haese]

On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 12:13 -0800, tac-tics wrote:

I have a program which has a GUI front-end which that runs a separate
thread to handle all the important stuff. However, if there is a
problem with the important stuff, I want the GUI to raise a MessageBox
alert to indicate this.

For exceptions, I can simply use a catch-all except statement like:

try:
...
except Exception, error:
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( self, "Error: %s" % error)

Only, I want it to catch Errors as well. Right now, I'm using:

try:
...
except (Exception, TypeError, NameError, RuntimeError, AttributeError) ,
error:
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( self, "Error: %s" % error)

I was wondering if there is a superclass for TypeError, NameError,
RuntimeError, AttributeError, etc.

Yes, that superclass is Exception:

>>for klass in (TypeError, NameError, RuntimeError, AttributeError) :

.... print klass, issubclass(klas s, Exception)
....
exceptions.Type Error True
exceptions.Name Error True
exceptions.Runt imeError True
exceptions.Attr ibuteError True

Have you encountered many TypeError, NameError, RuntimeError or
AttributeError exceptions that "except Exception" by itself failed to
catch?

-Carsten

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Wednesday 27/12/2006 17:13, tac-tics wrote:

>For exceptions, I can simply use a catch-all except statement like:

try:
...
except Exception, error:
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( self, "Error: %s" % error)

Normally, I could simply use a regular

except:
....

but then I don't have access to the error message.

Other people already said that all builtin exceptions are derived
from Exception. So using except Exception: xxx, you catch all of
them. What's left:
- string exceptions: deprecated long time ago, but you might
encounter them in old code.
- other classes not derived from Exception: still legal, probablly
not on future Python versions.
If you really have to catch any kind of exception, use a bare except
clause; you always can retrieve the exception details using
sys.exc_info()
--
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL


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