On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Israel Brewster <isr...@ravnalaska.net> wrote: > I generally use context managers for my SQL database connections, so I can > just write code like: > > with psql_cursor() as cursor: > <do whatever> > > And the context manager takes care of making a connection (or getting a > connection from a pool, more likely), and cleaning up after the fact (such as > putting the connection back in the pool), even if something goes wrong. > Simple, elegant, and works well. > > The problem is that, from time to time, I can't get a connection, the result > being that cursor is None, and attempting to use it results in an > AttributeError.
My question is: If you can't get a connection, why do you get back None? Wouldn't it be better for psql_cursor() to raise an exception? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
