Hi Alan. Yep, the err file in the exception block gets created. and the weird thing is it matches the time of the abrtd information in the /var/log/messages log..
Just nothing in the file! On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On 03/08/14 18:52, bruce wrote: > >>> but in all that.. no one could tell me .. why i'm not getting any >>> errs/exceptions in the err file which gets created on the exception!!! > > > Does the file actually get created? > Do you see the print statement output - are they what you expect? > > Did you try the things Steven suggested. > > >>> except Exception, e: >>> print e >>> print "pycolFac1 - error!! \n"; >>> name=subprocess.Popen('uuidgen -t', >>> shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE) >>> name=name.communicate()[0].strip() >>> name=name.replace("-","_") > > > This is usually a bad idea. You are using name for the process and its > output. Use more names... > What about: > > uuid=subprocess.Popen('uuidgen -t',shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > output=uuid.communicate()[0].strip() > name=output.replace("-","_") > >>> name2="/home/ihubuser/parseErrTest/pp_"+name+".dat" > > > This would be a good place to insert a print > > print name2 > >>> ofile1=open(name2,"w+") > > > Why are you using w+ mode? You are only writing. > Keep life as simple as possible. > >>> ofile1.write(e) > > > e is quite likely to be empty > >>> ofile1.write(aaa) > > > Are you sure aaa exists at this point? Remember you are catching all errors > so if an error happens prior to aaa being created this will > fail. > >>> ofile1.close() > > > You used the with form earlier, why not here too. > It's considered better style... > > Some final comments. > 1) You call sys.exit() several times inside > the try block. sys.exit will not be caught by your except block, > is that what you expect?. > > 2) The combination of confusing naming of variables, > reuse of names and poor code layout and excessive commented > code makes it very difficult to read your code. > That makes it hard to figure out what might be going on. > - Use sensible variable names not a,aaa,z, etc > - use 3 or 4 level indentation not 2 > - use a version control system (RCS,CVS, SVN,...) instead > of commenting out big blocks > - use consistent code style > eg with f as ... or open(f)/close(f) but not both > - use the os module (and friends) instead of subprocess if possible > > 3) Have you tried deleting all the files in the > /home/ihubuser/parseErrTest/ folder and starting again, > just to be sure that your current code is actually > producing the empty files? > > 4) You use tmpParseDir in a couple of places but I don't > see it being set anywhere? > > > That's about the best I can offer based on the > information available. > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list