Simon Forman wrote:
> rodmc wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Thanks for your email. Well I am kind of new to exceptions in Python,
>>but here is the code used below, as you can see it is somewhat basic.
>>Is there a way to display more information about the exception?
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>rod
>>
>
>
> Use the traceback module (See
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-traceback.html for info on it.)
>
> import traceback
>
> try:
> db = MySQLdb.connect(host=DBSERVERIP, user="user",
> passwd="password", db="nuke")
> except:
> print "A database connection error has occurred"
How can you assert it is a database connection error ?
> traceback.print_exc()
> return False
> else:
> pass
>
> #The rest of the program
You get the same result - with a more accurate error message - by not
handling the exception at all.
>
> It's generally very difficult to figure out what's going wrong without
> the traceback in front of you.
indeed.
> Also, try an empty string (i.e. "") as your hostname, it's shorthand
> for 'localhost'.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> ~Simon
>
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