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From: Olof Johansson <olof.johansson@axis.com>
To: Randy Witt <randy.e.witt@linux.intel.com>,
	<bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitbake:main.py: Handle RuntimeError exception in list_extension_modules
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:51:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150820225144.GB12937@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440104436-12491-1-git-send-email-randy.e.witt@linux.intel.com>

On 15-08-20 23:00 +0200, Randy Witt wrote:
> --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/main.py
> +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/main.py
> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def list_extension_modules(pkg, checkattr):
>              continue
>          try:
>              module = __import__(pkg.__name__, fromlist=[modulename])
> -        except (ImportError, SystemExit):
> +        except (ImportError, SystemExit, RuntimeError):
>              # If we can't import it, it's not valid
>              continue
>          module_if = getattr(module, modulename)

Wouldn't it be better to just skip naming the exceptions you want
to catch in this case? I.e.:

   try:
     module = __import__(...
   except:
     continue

"If we can't import it" ...

-- 
olofjn


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-20 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-20 21:00 [PATCH] bitbake:main.py: Handle RuntimeError exception in list_extension_modules Randy Witt
2015-08-20 22:51 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2015-08-21  8:07   ` Paul Eggleton
2015-08-21 16:53     ` Richard Purdie

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