[PyKDE] SIP Support for C++ Operators and Exceptions

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 25 July 2003 12:01 am, Tuvi, Selim wrote:
> Phil, we just tried your suggestion and added a wrapped exception class and
> enabled the -e flag.
>
> Although it does translate the C++ exception to Python properly, it does it
> a little different than the regular Python exceptions would. In Python, one
> would write:
>
> try:
>   raise RuntimeError, "Got an error"
> except RuntimeError, detail:
>   print detail
>
> When run, this would print "Got an error".
>
> But when the C++ exception is received by Python, "print detail" returns
> the class instance of the wrapped exception object. Is there a seamless way
> of having Python display the error message rather than the class instance
> reference? If the person who wrote the python code did not provide the
> try/except block then all he/she would see is going to be the name of the
> class which is not very informative.

What if you implement __str__() for your exception class?

Phil