Laszlo Nagy wrote: >>>>> def safe(deferred, default=42, exception=Exception): >> ... try: >> ... return deferred() >> ... except exception: >> ... return default > > What a beautiful solution! I was wondering if the following would be > possible: > > > def test(thing, default, *exc_classes): > try: > thing() > except *exc_classes: > return default > > > But it is syntactically invalid.
The except clause allows a tuple of exceptions: >>> def safe(deferred, default, *exceptions): ... try: ... return deferred() ... except exceptions: ... return default ... >>> safe(lambda: 1/0, -1, ValueError, ZeroDivisionError) -1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
