On Friday 25 July 2003 1:51 pm, Paul F. Kunz wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:48:59 +0100, Phil Thompson > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > On Friday 25 July 2003 12:01 am, Tuvi, Selim wrote: > >> Phil, we just tried your suggestion and added a wrapped exception > >> class and enabled the -e flag. > >> > >> Although it does translate the C++ exception to Python properly, it > >> does it a little different than the regular Python exceptions > >> would. In Python, one would write: > >> > >> try: raise RuntimeError, "Got an error" except RuntimeError, > >> detail: print detail > >> > >> When run, this would print "Got an error". > >> > >> But when the C++ exception is received by Python, "print detail" > >> returns the class instance of the wrapped exception object. Is > >> there a seamless way of having Python display the error message > >> rather than the class instance reference? If the person who wrote > >> the python code did not provide the try/except block then all > >> he/she would see is going to be the name of the class which is not > >> very informative. > > > > What if you implement __str__() for your exception class? > > I suppose you mean to implement this in the .sip file. Can you > point to an example of doing this in the PyQt sources?
grep __str__ *.sip => qbytearray.sip, qcstring.sip, qstring.sip The important bits are that "sipCpp" will be a pointer to your exception class instance and you should return a Python string or Unicode object. Phil _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde