On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:36:00 +0530, Amit Khemka wrote: > If I gather correctly, i guess in case of errors/exceptions in a class > function, you want to get the error string. One thing that comes > straight to my mind is, in such a case use a return statement in > functions with two arguments. > > for example: > def foo(self, value): > try: > a.x = value > return True, '' > except ValueError: return False, 'Float conversion error: %s' %(value) > > and when ever u call the function, check the first return value, It is > false then alert/print the error message.
Oh lordy, that is _so_ 1980s programming practice!!! I'm not saying that it is never a good idea, but avoiding that sort of thing is one of the reasons exceptions were created! -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
