On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Vishal <vsapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:07 PM, steve <st...@lonetwin.net> wrote: > >> On 09/15/2009 08:56 PM, Vishal wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I would like to raise an exception of type Exception(), however the >>> regular exception stack trace needs to be supressed. >>> >>> This is needed in a function that takes raw_input() from the user and >>> based on 'Y' or 'N', the function suspends further execution and returns >>> to the python prompt or Hicontinues. An exit() brings it out of the >>> python >>> process....where as what is needed is coming back to the python prompt. >>> >>> I want a custom message to appear instead of a regular exception stack >>> trace message. >>> >>> How to do this? any pointers...? >>> >> Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Jun 8 2009, 16:07:29) >> [GCC 4.4.0 20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4)] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> >>> import traceback >> >>> try: >> ... 1 + "foo" >> ... except Exception, e: >> ... traceback.format_stack(limit=1) >> ... >> [' File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>\n'] >> >>> help(traceback) >> .... >> >> HTH, >> - steve >> >> >> > Forgot to mention that we are currently stuck with python2.5.2 > As part of a debug/test hook, I would like to suspend further action of a > program, after a certain point in the procedure. What I had come up with is > a function named testHook() which does this: > > def testHook(): > """ > """ > choice = raw_input("Would you like to continue (Y or N): ") > try: > if(str(choice).lower() != 'y'): > print("You chose not to go ahead. Ok!!\nAborting Now...") > raise Exception("User initiated Abort...") > except Exception: > raise # re-raise it..so we come out of execution loop > > is this what you want,
def testHook(): """ """ choice = raw_input("Would you like to continue (Y or N): ") try: if(str(choice).lower() != 'y'): print("You chose not to go ahead. Ok!!\nAborting Now...") raise Exception("User initiated Abort...") except Exception, e: print e.message > In this case, a stack trace gets printed out, before the string 'user > initiated abort' comes up. I want to remove that stack trace...so it looks > more clean to a user. > > What can be done in this case? or any other way of creating such a hook? > > -- > Thanks and best regards, > Vishal Sapre > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > -- ashok raavi
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