On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 6:29:05 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:15 AM, kbtyo wrote: > > However, when I hit line 40 (referencing the gist), I receive the following > > error: > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) > > <ipython-input-56-4eff0a608e19> in <module>() > > 23 # to ensure that the field names in the XML don't match > > (and override) the > > 24 # field names already in the dictionary > > ---> 25 row.update(xml_data) > > 26 # ensure that the headers have all the right fields > > 27 headers.update(row.keys()) > > > > TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable > > > > I can only infer I am passing or converting an empty key or empty row. I > > welcome feedback. > > NoneType is the type of the singleton object None. So what this means > is that xml_data is None at this point. > > In your just_xml_data() function, which is what provides xml_data at > that point, there are two code branches that matter here: one is the > "else: return xml", and the other is the implicit "return None" at the > end of the function. If you catch an exception, you print out a > message and then allow the function to return None. Is that really > your intention? It seems an odd way to do things, but if that is what > you want, you'll need to cope with the None return in the main > routine. > > BTW, your gist has a couple of non-comments on lines 48 and 49. If you > can make sure that your code is functionally correct, it'll be easier > for us to test. (Even more so if you can include a sample input file > in the gist, though preferably not a huge one.) At the moment, I'm > just eyeballing the code itself, but if someone can actually run the > script and reproduce the exact error you're seeing, it makes debugging > that much easier. > > All the best! > > ChrisA
Hi Chris: I made changes to the gist: https://gist.github.com/ahlusar1989/de2381c1fb77e96ae601 Ahhhhhh!!!! Thanks for catching that. No, I want to skip over the Exception and return the xml_data in the try block. I didn't realize that was the behaviour. I don't want to break the iterative loop. Any advice on how to absolve this? Thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
