On Aug 16, 12:16 am, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 15, 11:42 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2007-08-15, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Or am I terribly missing something that you are trying to tell ? > > > I didn't see log = Log() in your example. Sorry for the > > excursion. > > > Are you sure os.name is 'posix' on your system? > > Here again for you: > > In [6]: cat rick.py > IPython system call: cat rick.py > import os, sys > > class Log: > def __init__(self, verbose, lock = None): > self.VERBOSE = bool(verbose) > self.lock = bool(lock) > > if self.lock: > self.dispLock = threading.Lock() > else: > self.dispLock = None > > if os.name == 'posix': > try: > import foobar > except ImportError, e: > print >> sys.stderr, e > > self.platform = 'posix' > self.color = get_colors() > > elif os.name in ['nt', 'dos']: > self.platform = 'microsoft' > try: > import SomeModule > except ImportError, e: > # comment out next line before going to prod... > print >> sys.stderr, e > > self.color = None > else: > self.color = SomeModule.get_colors_windows() > else: > self.platform = None > self.color = None > > In [7]: from rick import Log > > In [8]: log = Log(verbose = True) > No module named foobar > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > exceptions.NameError Traceback (most > recent call last) > > /tmp/<ipython console> > > /tmp/rick.py in __init__(self, verbose, lock) > 18 > 19 self.platform = 'posix' > ---> 20 self.color = get_colors() > 21 > 22 elif os.name in ['nt', 'dos']: > > NameError: global name 'get_colors' is not defined >
Oops!!! Looks like I completely missed this. It _did_ print the error message. Apologies to all for not keeping a close eye on the error message. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
