common mistakes in this simple program

[sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com]

On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:21:57 AM UTC-8, Ganesh Pal wrote:
> >> How do we reraise the exception in python ,  I have used raise not
> >> sure how to reraise the exception
> >
> > raise with no arguments will reraise the exception currently being handled.
> >
> > except Exception:
> >     logging.error("something went wrong")
> >     raise
> 
> Thanks Ian for taking time and looking into the code ,  o k raise
> keyword for raising exception is fine .
> 
> >>>>         assert ret ==0,"ERROR (ret %d): " \
> >>>>                 " \nout: %s\nerr: %s\n" % (ret, out, err)
> >>>>     except Exception as e:
> >>>>         print("Failed to run %s got %s" % (cmd, e))
> >>>>         return False
> >>>>     return True
> >>>>
> >>>> def prep_host():
> >>>>     """
> >>>>     Prepare clustering
> >>>>     """
> >>>>     for cmd in ["ls -al",
> >>>>                 "touch /tmp/file1",
> >>>>                 "mkdir /tmp/dir1"]:
> >>>>         try:
> >>>>             if not run_cmd_and_verify(cmd, timeout=3600):
> >>>>                 return False
> >>>>         except:
> >>>
> >>> What exceptions are you expecting this to catch? run_cmd_and_verify
> >>> already catches any expected exceptions that it raises.
> 
> In my case the exception is nothing but the error  example if  we plan
> to run the command  say  #ifconfig -a and the command fails because of
> a type ( say u ran #igconfig -a).
> 
> we will the output as
> 
> # Failed to run igconfig -a got Error (ret=127)
> out :
> error: command not found: igconfig
> 
> So the execption is the error i.e Error (ret=127) out : error: command
> not found: igconfig,  Iam fine with this behaviour.
> 
> 
> >
> > But that exception is already caught by the run_cmd_and_verify
> > function, so what exception are you expecting to be caught *here*?
> 
> I wanted to run the command in a loop  and have a fxn for the pattern
> that repeats in this case the function is run_cmd_and_verify  , the
> only known way to me was using try with expect
> 
> I thought I will use try and have pass in except which  you don't recommend
> 
>    for cmd in ["ls -al",
>                  "touch /tmp/file1",
>                 "mkdir /tmp/dir1"]:
>           try:
>                    if not run_cmd_and_verify(cmd, timeout=3600):
>                         print "running command failed "
>                    return False
>         except:
>                 pass
> 
> > You should virtually never just pass in an exception handler. Either
> > handle the exception, or log it and reraise it. If you're going to do
> > neither of those things, then don't use a try-except at all.
> 
> What alternative do I have other than try-expect ? can try - else be
> used  for my case?
> 
> Regards,
> GPal

Every time you say "try-expect", my head wants to explode.

It is called a "try-except" block, because you're using the key words "try" and "except" when you make one.