On Apr 20, 3:46 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Jesse Aldridge <jessealdri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > from my_paths import * > > > def get_selected_paths(): > > return [home, desktop, project1, project2] > > > ------- > > > So I have a function like this which returns a list containing a bunch > > of variables. The real list has around 50 entries. Occasionally I'll > > remove a variable from my_paths and cause get_selected_paths to throw > > a NameError. For example, say I delete the "project1" variable from > > my_paths; now I'll get a NameError when I call get_selected_paths. > > So everything that depends on the get_selected_paths function is > > crashing. I am wondering if there is an easy way to just ignore the > > variable if it's not found. So, in the example case I would want to > > somehow handle the exception in a way that I end up returning just > > [home, desktop, project2]. > > Yes, I realize there are a number of ways to reimplement this, but I'm > > wanting to get it working with minimal changes to the code. Any > > suggestions? > > def get_selected_paths(): > variables = "home desktop project1 project2".split() > vals = [] > for var in variables: > try: > vals.append(getattr(my_paths, var)) > except AttributeError: > pass > return vals > > -- > I have a blog:http://blog.rebertia.com
Hey, that's even better. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
