File Handling & TRY/EXCEPT

[Alex Popescu]

"Robert Rawlins - Think Blue" <robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk>
wrote in news:13677.732498809$1186148538 at news.gmane.org: 

> Thanks for your ideas guys,
> 
> I'm unfortunately tied to 2.4 so don't have the full try except
> status, but I'm now working with the following code:
> 
>      def addApp(self, event):
>           try:
>                logfile =
> open('/pblue/new/Logs/Application.csv','a')
> 
>                now = datetime.datetime.now()
>                logstring = '%s,%s \n' % (event, str(now))
>                
>                try:                    
>                     logfile.write(logstring)
>                finally:
>                     logfile.close()
>           except:
>                self.addApp(event)
> 
> I'm trying to slowly debug my app and get rid of all the memory leaks,
> but its pain staking work, any help you can offer on that stuff would
> be a god send, I'm a little reluctant about posting all my app code on
> the lists as I'd like to keep some of it private.
> 
> How does that new version look? A little tidier?
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 

Now, you are sure the file is always close. What I don't think is 
correct is to retry to re-write the event (cause if opening the file 
crashed ones there are very good chances that it will throw the 2nd 
time).

./alex
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