How to use the exec statement

[JB]

<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?

-- 
J.... B....


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