[Pythonmac-SIG] parameters to Scrap.GetScrap( ??, ??)

[Jack Jansen]

> Is there some place I should be able to find stuff like that for myself? I
> didn't see anything like that in libmac.pdf, and I haven't found any other
> docs for MacPython.

If someone wants to pick up working on MacPython documentation: please, be my 
guest. I know the docs are very incomplete and outdated, but I don't have time 
to work on it....

> Here's the end of the traceback I get if I start up the program right after
> zeroing the scrap:
> 
>     TE.TEFromScrap()
> Mac OS Error: (-102, 'No object of that type in scrap')
> 
> This looks like the relevant line in macerrors.py:
> noTypeErr	=	-102	#No object of that type in scrap
> 
> My code at that point is
> 
> 	try:
> 		TE.TEFromScrap()
> 	except macerrors.noTypeErr:
> 		print "Caught it!"	#For debugging
> 		pass

The values in macerrors.py are the values you will be passed in the *argument* 
to the exception. The exception you get for all (or, at least, almost all) 
toolbox errors is MacOS.Error. This exception is also known as TE.Error, 
Res.Error, etc etc etc.
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