"Allen Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I have a block of code buried deep in a module
> that I expect to fail periodically.
> (Calls to other machines over slow network, and such.)
>
> Generally, though, trying it a second / third will work.
>
> Is there clean way to write this on Python?
There was a thread on this a few days ago but I can't find it now...
In general if you only have a few (eg hundreds) things to
check you can run a loop inside a loop and exit it with break
if it works. Pdeudo code:
for item in list:
for attempt in range(3):
result = accessItem(item)
if result == OK: break
else: sleep(T) # optional pause to regroup if needed...
else: logError(item)
But I'm not sure if that's what you count as clean!
If the volumes being processed it is usually better to
gather the failures up for seondary processing after
getting through the successful ones. This is a much
more efficient way of handling high data volumes.
HTH
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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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