Hello, In short I would like to know if somebody knows if it is possible to re-execute a statement that raised an exception? I will explain the reason by providing a small introduction on why this might be nice in my case and some example code.
I am using the python bindings to a *very* large C++ library. About 5000 classes divided over approx. 450 different packages are exposed through the Python interface. To reduce the number of import statements that need to be inserted and to limit the number of wildcard imports it would be very helpful if class names could be automatically imported from the proper module. There is no problem in finding out the proper module given a (valid) class name. As an example, look at the following statement >> aPoint = gp_Pnt(1.0, 0.0, 0.0) # Oops, this will raise a NameError, since # gp_Pnt class is unknown NameError: name 'gp_Pnt' is not defined As indicated, this will raise a NameError exception. What I would like to do is something like the following (pseudo-code): try: .... .... aPoint = gp_Pnt(1.0, 0.0, 0.0) [1] .... .... except NameError, e: name = e.args[0].split[1] if isValid(name): doImport(name) ===> Can I go back to statement [1] from this point? else: raise e There is no problem in catching the exception, finding out which name is unknown to python and check if this is a valid name for my library. My question is, is there any possibility of going back to the statement that raised the error, re-execute the statement and continue? Thanks for any thoughts and suggestions. Marco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list