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Practical Maya Programming with Python

You're reading from   Practical Maya Programming with Python Unleash the power of Python in Maya and unlock your creativity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849694728
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robert Galanakis Robert Galanakis
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Preface 1. Introspecting Maya, Python, and PyMEL FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Composable Code 3. Dealing with Errors 4. Leveraging Context Managers and Decorators in Maya 5. Building Graphical User Interfaces for Maya 6. Automating Maya from the Outside 7. Taming the Maya API 8. Unleashing the Maya API through Python 9. Becoming a Part of the Python Community A. Python Best Practices Index

Living with unhandled exceptions

An exception can occur in two conceptual situations. The first is when the caller expects it to happen, as we did when building minspect._is_pymel in Chapter 1, Introspecting Maya, Python, and PyMEL. An AttributeError being raised indicated to our algorithm that we should try a different attribute. Exceptions were being used for flow control and had no ill effects.

The second situation, which is the focus of this and the following section, is when the caller does not expect an exception. In this case, the exception bubbles up to a higher layer. If the exception bubbles all the way up to the Python interpreter (the exception is not caught by any except clause), it is called an unhandled exception. When an unhandled exception occurs, the Python process exits or some default error handler is invoked, often printing the exception information.

Failing in this catastrophic way when an unhandled exception occurs is called failing fast, and it is generally a good...

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