Stargaming & Diez, thanks very much!
Stargaming wrote: > Paul Sijben schrieb: >> All, >> >> in a worker thread setup that communicates via queues is it possible to >> catch exceptions raised by the worker executed, put them in an object >> and send them over the queue to another thread where the exception is >> raised in that scope? >> >> considering that an exception is an object I feel it ought to be >> possible, however I do not see how to go about it. >> >> does anyone have a pointer towards the solution? >> >> Paul > > You're right, even exceptions are objects in Python. For further > studies, read http://docs.python.org/lib/module-exceptions.html > > You can catch an exception like this: > try: > worker.do_some_work_that_may_raise_an_exception() > except Exception, e: > # the first argument is the type of error you want to handle > # it is Exception here, the baseclass of all computation exceptions > # the second argument is the variable (name) where you want to save > # the specific exception raised to > # it's 'e' here, a common shortcut for exception > exception_handler.handle(e) > # notice that you can pass e around as you like > > For further information on exceptions and how to handle them, read > chapter 8 of the tutorial, especially starting from 8.3: > http://docs.python.org/tut/node10.html#SECTION0010300000000000000000 > > P.S. I don't know if what I told still applies to Python 3.0 -- a lot of > changes are upcoming related to exception raising and handling. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list