Abuse of the object-nature of functions?

[Simon Forman]

Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
> Hrmms, well, here's an interesting situation.  So say we wanna catch
> most exceptions but we don't necessarily know what they are going to
> be.  For example, I have a framework that executes modules (python
> functions), the framework wraps each function execution in a try/except
> block in order to compensate for what *might* happen.  Upon coding the
> framework I really have no idea what types of problems these modules
> might have but I want to catch these errors so that I can clean up and
> exit gracefully, not only that but I want to dump the exception to log
> files so that we can attempt to fix it.  So, I have the option of
> catching all standard exceptions and not list the ones I know I don't
> want to catch.  But what about user defined exceptions?  Do I then have
> to enforce policies on the system stating what types of exceptions can
> be raised?
>
> Is there a way in python to say, "hey, catch everything but these two"?
>
>
>
> --
>
> Carl J. Van Arsdall
> cvanarsdall at mvista.com
> Build and Release
> MontaVista Software


try:
    # Do some stuff
except Exception, err:
    if err not in (DontCatchMe1, DontCatchMe2):
        # Handle err

HTH,
~Simon