On Friday, June 29, 2012 4:53:43 AM UTC-4, andrea crotti wrote:
> On the other hand now that I think again even supposing there is a
> permanent error like MySql completely down, retrying continuosly
> won't do any harm anyway because the machine will not be able to do
> anything else anyway, when
On the other hand now that I think again even supposing there is a
permanent error like MySql completely down, retrying continuosly
won't do any harm anyway because the machine will not be able to do
anything else anyway, when someone will fix MySql it would
restart again without human intervention
On 06/28/2012 06:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:26:36 +0100, andrea crotti wrote:
I disagree. If you make a coding error in your function, why do you think
it is useful to retry that buggy code over and over again? It's never
going to get less buggy unless you see the exce
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:26:36 +0100, andrea crotti wrote:
>> Returning a boolean isn't very Pythonic. It would be better, IMHO, if
>> it could swallow a specified exception (or specified exceptions?)
>> raised when an attempt failed, up to the maximum permitted number of
>> attempts. If the final a
> Returning a boolean isn't very Pythonic. It would be better, IMHO, if
> it could swallow a specified exception (or specified exceptions?)
> raised when an attempt failed, up to the maximum permitted number of
> attempts. If the final attempt fails, propagate the exception.
> --
> http://mail.pyth
On 28/06/2012 16:28, andrea crotti wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm replacing a perl system that has to work a lot with
databases and perforce (and a few other things).
This script have to run completely unsupervisioned, so it's important
that it doesn't just quit at the first attempt waiting for human
i
Hi everyone, I'm replacing a perl system that has to work a lot with
databases and perforce (and a few other things).
This script have to run completely unsupervisioned, so it's important
that it doesn't just quit at the first attempt waiting for human
intervent..
They say that the network someti
