Re: How to generally handle exceptions?

[Nick B. <ni...@br...>]

thanks - i was having trouble knowing where this "desc" field was.  so i
se now that it is:

except _ldap.LDAPError, e
  print 'Your error is ' + e[0]['desc']

thanks for the help.

nick

Michael Str=F6der wrote:
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> Nick Bower wrote:
> >
> > Is there any possible way to tell what exception has been raised in
> > python-ldap without catching every single possibile type of
> > _ldap.LDAPError?
> >
> > It would be really nice in example included in the python-ldap
> > documentation if an exception was caught in the following general way=
:
> >
> > try:
> >   <connect, bind and search, as is currently shown>
> > except:
> >   <display type of exception and its description>
> >
> > at the moment, there is no example code with exceptions in the
> > documentation or distribution and i can't figure out how to catch one
> > from the exception references provided without trying to catch every
> > single possibility.
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> import ldap
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> try:
>     <connect, bind and search, as is currently shown>
> except ldap.LDAPError,e:
>     print repr(e)
>=20
> Well, exception instances are not really implemented completely
> pythonic but it's a start.
>=20
> Ciao, Michael.

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