At 07:19 AM 7/11/2001 -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:36:30PM +0200, Gilles Poidevin wrote:
> > except:
>
>Are you sure the exception is what you think it is (cookie not set)?
>A bare "except:" will catch any exception. It's better to explicitly
>state which exception you're excepting, except for the top-level
>"fallback of last resort" code.
>
>Have you tried putting "import traceback; traceback.print_exc()"
>in the except: clause? Then you can verify which exception is really
>being thrown.
Mike is right. A general except: is always a bad thing unless you really
are writing a general catch-all bit of code for any kind of error. Even a
misspelled variable name will be caught by except:
Try this:
if self.request().hasCookie('firstVisit'):
doThis()
else:
doThat()
-Chuck
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