Re: [Duplicity-talk] problem w/ pydrive

[edgar . soldin]

hey Ken,

i assume that <report ...> is pseudo code for printing the error w/ stack, or? 
why is that more elegant than rewrapping the error stack and have the calling 
code deal w/ the exception?

but why catch it at all, if an init error fails the backend anyway?

..ede

On 01.03.2017 16:16, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Correction:
> 
> try:
>     import foo
>     import bar
> except ImportError as e:
>     <report import error and read manual>
>     <report exception from str(e)>
>     raise
> except Exception as e:
>     <report exception and str(e)>
>     raise
> 
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     ede,
> 
>     More like the following:
> 
>     try:
>         import foo
>         import bar
>     except ImportError:
>         <report import error and read manual>
>         raise
>     except Exception as e:
>         <report exception and str(e)>
>         raise
> 
>     ...Ken
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 6:25 PM, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> wrote:
> 
>         Ken,
> 
>         any hint on how? something like this
>           
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3847503/wrapping-exceptions-in-python 
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3847503/wrapping-exceptions-in-python>
>         ?
> 
>         easiest would be probably to simply get rid of the try catch, but 
> then we would loose the "check the manpage" text.
> 
>         ..ede
> 
>         On 28.02.2017 20:52, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>         > Edgar, I've see it done, so yes.
>         >
>         > Douglas, could you report this as a bug?
>         >
>         > ...Thanks,
>         > ...Ken
>         >
>         >
>         > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:18 PM Douglas J Hunley <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>>
>         > wrote:
>         >
>         >>
>         >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:51 PM, <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>         >>
>         >> would you agree that the error should be visible, instead of the 
> vague
>         >> message?
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> Good lord yes! :)
>         >>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> --
>         >> {
>         >>   "name": "douglas j hunley",
>         >>   "email": "address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>",
>         >>   "social": [
>         >>     {
>         >>         "blog": "https://hunleyd.github.io/";,
>         >>         "twitter": "@hunleyd"
>         >>     }
>         >>    ]
>         >> }
>         >>
>         >
> 
> 
>