Re: [Tutor] Error frameworks

2005-09-21 Thread DS
>>(Please reply to the tutor list, not to me privately) whoops >>Generally, you want to catch the exception at the level that knows what to do >>about it. Your function2() isn't handling the exception in any meaningful >>sense, it is just converting it to a magic return value. You might as well

Re: [Tutor] Error frameworks

2005-09-21 Thread Kent Johnson
(Please reply to the tutor list, not to me privately) DS wrote: > Thanks for looking at my problem. Let me try to explain what bothers me > about raising an error: > > Below is a brain-dead example of one function calling another which > calls another. If in function3 I raise an error, function

Re: [Tutor] Error frameworks

2005-09-21 Thread Kent Johnson
DS wrote: > Hi > > Is there any particular standard or approach that I should use for an > error framework? For example, suppose I have a set of functions that > call one another, and an error is triggered. I want an error message to > be passed back to the user, so I could: Raise an exception,

[Tutor] Error frameworks

2005-09-21 Thread DS
Hi Is there any particular standard or approach that I should use for an error framework? For example, suppose I have a set of functions that call one another, and an error is triggered. I want an error message to be passed back to the user, so I could: 1. have an error message passed bac