How to use the exec statement
JB
jb at yahoo.de
Mon Oct 7 11:50:06 EDT 2002
<posted & mailed>
Alex Martelli wrote:
> JB wrote:
>
>> Alex Martelli wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Thx, now everything works fine (but for catching user
>> errors that raise exceptions, which I have not
>> implemented yet).
>
> Good to have been of use!
>
> Since you want to catch just about every error the user
> could make, you probably want a try/except with a very
> broad condition... in fact I fear you need a
> condition-less except (always a problem) since the user
> could raise a string, and even "except Exception:" won't
> catch THAT... that's rather a fragile thing to do (as it
> may mask any programming error) but it's hard to think of
> alternatives.
Well, I could preprocess the string that is given to exec. I
am thinking about introducing '<---' instead of '=' anyway.
Then only assignments, function calls and function
definitions would be allowed.
But even so, I cannot catch every error. But I could use
except without a name, couldn't I? like in
def f(x,y):
try:
return x/y
except:
print 'error'
Then if I split the string that is give to exec I can even
tell in which line the error occured.
Is this sensible?
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