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user97735
user97735

Reputation:

Python - Possible to force raise exceptions regardless try/except blocks?

In Python is there any language (or interpreter) feature to force the python interpreter to always raise exceptions even if the exception offending code is inside a try/except block ?

I've just inherited a larger and old codebase written in python, whose purpose is to communicate with some custom designed hardware we also developed. Many communication errors and timeouts are being masked/missed due to the following (simplified) pattern of code:

try:
    serialport.write(MSG)
except:
    some_logging_function_mostly_not_working_that_might_be_here_or_not()
    #or just:
    #pass

In order to avoid the typical scenario of "just rewrite the whole thing from scratch", I'm currently trying to fix all exceptions errors/timeouts. I'm doing this by disabling by hand the all exception handling code, one at a time.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2434

Answers (4)

Shivaji fullstack
Shivaji fullstack

Reputation: 107

I guess you want to ignore except especially when you are debugging and apply it otherwise.

One good way is to have a global variable say debug=True and conditionally invoke raise:

debug=True

def foo:
   try:
       # do some code
   except:
       if debug: raise #put this in all excepts

Now set debug to False whenever raise is to muted all across

Upvotes: 0

S.Lott
S.Lott

Reputation: 391952

The "all-exceptions" except: block is a remarkably bad thing and must simply be found and replaced with sensible except handling.

In this case grep is your friend. A good IDE can help make these unpleasant chores manageable.

But there's no "ignore the code as written" option in Python.

Upvotes: 11

Jason Baker
Jason Baker

Reputation: 198707

No, not really. Your best bet is to change the code to something more like this:

try:
    serialport.write(MSG)
except:
    some_logging_function_mostly_not_working_that_might_be_here_or_not()
    raise

This will make it re-raise the exact exception. The main thing that you need to understand is that if there were a way to make all exceptions exit the system, you wouldn't be able to use a for loop (iterators raise a StopIteration exception).

Upvotes: 3

Andrew Sledge
Andrew Sledge

Reputation: 10351

You can use multiple exception handlers to handle multiple exceptions.

try:
    serialport.write(MSG)
except Handler1:
    some_logging_function_mostly_not_working_that_might_be_here_or_not()
    #or just:
    #pass
except Handler2:
    some_logging_function_mostly_not_working_that_might_be_here_or_not2()
    #or just:
    #pass

Upvotes: -2

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