On Mar 4, 12:00 am, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Fab86 wrote: > > On Mar 3, 8:59 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > >> En Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:50:25 -0200, Fab86 <fabien.h...@gmail.com> escribió: > > >>> On Mar 3, 6:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > >>>> En Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:39:43 -0200, Fab86 <fabien.h...@gmail.com> > >>>> escribió: > >>>>> I am having a bit on an issue getting my program to work. The online > >>>>> database which I am trying to contact keep timing out meaning I can > >>>>> not carry out my 200 searches without being interupted. > >>>>> I believe that the solution would be to include an exception handler > >>>>> with a timer delay if this error occurs so wait a bit then carry on > >>>>> however having spent hours looking at this I can not get my head > >>>>> around how to do such a thing. > >>>> Exactly. How to handle > >>>> exceptions:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html > >>>> Use time.sleep() to wait for some > >>>> time:http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.sleep > >>> Thanks for that I will give it a read. > >>> Do I need to know what error I am getting? > >> Usually it's best to be as specific as possible. > > >>> IDLE is giving me this: > >>> Traceback (most recent call last): > >>> File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\test6.py", line > >>> 13, in <module> > >>> res = srch.parse_results() > >>> File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\yahoo\search > >>> \__init__.py", line 765, in parse_results > >>> xml = self.get_results() > >>> File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\yahoo\search > >>> \__init__.py", line 738, in get_results > >>> stream = self.open() > >>> File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\yahoo\search > >>> \__init__.py", line 723, in open > >>> raise SearchError(err) > >>> SearchError: service temporarily unavailable [C:28] > >> That means that, in line 13 of test6.py [first line in the stack trace], > >> after several function calls [intermediate lines in the stack trace] > >> leading to function open in the search package [last line of the stack > >> trace], a SearchError exception was raised. > >> If you want to catch that exception: > > >> try: > >> ... some code ... > >> except SearchError: > >> ... code to handle the exception ... > > >> How to "spell" exactly the exception name should appear in the > >> documentation; might be yahoo.SearchError, or yahoo.search.SearchError, or > >> > >> yahoo.errors.SearchError, or similar. > > > I have been trying except SearchError: however I get the error: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "C:\Downloads\MoS\yws-2.12\Python\pYsearch-3.1\timeDelay.py", > > line 19, in <module> > > except SearchError: > > NameError: name 'SearchError' is not defined > > > I have searched all documents for terms along the lines of searcherror > > but am finding nothing.. > > > Any ideas? > > It's defined in the module you imported to get the search functionality.
I imported: from yahoo.search.web import WebSearch However there is nothing re SearchError in that doc or in the .py. I can only find a reference to SearchError in the __init__ file as a class called SearchError -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
