No return to the parent function

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Joan Miller <peloko45 at gmail.com> writes:

> I've a main function called i.e. *foo()* which has a block of code
> that is repetead several times (for the error catching code and error
> reporting), but that code has a return to exit of *foo()*
>
> -----------
> foo():
>   ...
>     if self.background:
>         _log.exception(str(error))
>         return ReturnCode.ERROR, None
>     else:
>         raise NameError(error)
>
> -----------
>
> So I would tu put that code block into a separated function (*throw()
> *), but the problem is that it returns to the parent function (foo()).
> How to solve it?

If I understand correctly, you can simply do this:

def throw(...):
    if ...:
        ...
        return ...
    else:
        raise ...

def foo():
    ...
    return throw(...)

HTH

I.e. if throw returns something, foo returns it as well.  If throw
raises an exception, it will go through foo.  Is this what you want?

-- 
Arnaud