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- UserDict.UserDict(MiscUtils.NamedValueAccess.NamedValueAccess)
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- Error
class Error(UserDict.UserDict) |
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An error is a dictionary-like object, containing a specific user-readable error message and an object associated with it. Since Error inherits UserDict, other informative values can be arbitrarily attached to errors. For this reason, subclassing Error is rare.
Example:
err = Error(user, 'Invalid password.')
err['time'] = time.time()
err['attempts'] = attempts
The object and message can be accessed via methods:
print err.object()
print err.message()
When creating errors, you can pass None for both the object and the message. You can also pass additional values, which are then included in the error:
>>> err = Error(None, 'Too bad.', timestamp=time.time())
>>> err.keys()
['timestamp']
Or include the values as a dictionary, instead of keyword arguments:
>>> info = {'timestamp': time.time()}
>>> err = Error(None, 'Too bad.', info)
Or you could even do both if you needed to. |
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- Method resolution order:
- Error
- UserDict.UserDict
- MiscUtils.NamedValueAccess.NamedValueAccess
Methods defined here:
- __init__(self, object, message, valueDict={}, **valueArgs)
- Initializes an error with the object the error occurred for, and the user-readable error message. The message should be self sufficient such that if printed by itself, the user would understand it.
- __nonzero__(self)
- __repr__(self)
- __str__(self)
- message(self)
- object(self)
Methods inherited from UserDict.UserDict:
- __cmp__(self, dict)
- __contains__(self, key)
- __delitem__(self, key)
- __getitem__(self, key)
- __len__(self)
- __setitem__(self, key, item)
- clear(self)
- copy(self)
- get(self, key, failobj=None)
- hasValueForKey = _UserDict_hasValueForKey(self, key)
- has_key(self, key)
- items(self)
- iteritems(self)
- iterkeys(self)
- itervalues(self)
- keys(self)
- pop(self, key, *args)
- popitem(self)
- setdefault(self, key, failobj=None)
- update(self, dict=None, **kwargs)
- valueForKey = _UserDict_valueForKey(self, key, default=<class MiscUtils.NoDefault>)
- values(self)
Class methods inherited from UserDict.UserDict:
- fromkeys(cls, iterable, value=None) from __builtin__.classobj
Methods inherited from MiscUtils.NamedValueAccess.NamedValueAccess:
- hasValueForName(self, keysString)
- resetKeyBindings(self)
- setValueForKey(self, key, value)
- Suppose key is 'foo'. This method sets the value with the following precedence:
1. Public attributes before private attributes
2. Methods before non-methods
More specifically, this method then uses one of the following:
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...or invokes handleUnknownSetKey().
- valueForKeySequence(self, listOfKeys, default=None)
- valueForName(self, keysString, default=None)
- Returns the value for the given keysString. This is the more advanced version of
valueForKey(), which can only handle single names. This method can handle
'foo', 'foo1.foo2', 'a.b.c.d', etc. It will traverse dictionaries if needed.
- valueForUnknownKey(self, key, default)
- # Errors
- valuesForNames(self, keys, default=None, defaults=None, forgive=0, includeNames=0)
- Returns a list of values that match the given keys, each of which is passed
through valueForName() and so could be of the form 'a.b.c'.
keys is a sequence. default is any kind of object. defaults is a sequence.
forgive and includeNames is a flag.
If default is not None, then it is substituted when a key is not found.
Otherwise, if defaults is not None, then it's corresponding/parallel value
for the current key is substituted when a key is not found.
Otherwise, if forgive=1, then unknown keys simply don't produce any values.
Otherwise, if default and defaults are None, and forgive=0, then the unknown
keys will probably raise an exception through valueForUnknownKey() although
that method can always return a final, default value.
if keys is None, then None is returned. If keys is an empty list, then None
is returned.
Often these last four arguments are specified by key.
Examples:
names = ['origin.x', 'origin.y', 'size.width', 'size.height']
obj.valuesForNames(names)
obj.valuesForNames(names, default=0.0)
obj.valuesForNames(names, defaults=[0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 100.0])
obj.valuesForNames(names, forgive=0)
@@ 2000-03-04 ce: includeNames is only supported when forgive=1.
It should be supported for the other cases.
It should be documented.
It should be included in the test cases.
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