catch dbi.program-error ?

[Brian Herbert Withun]

I'm having difficulty catching dbi.program-error which occurs this way:

import dbi, odbc
[...]
self.__cur.execute(sql)

dbi.program-error: [Sybase][ODBC Driver][Adaptive Server Anywhere]Table 'depfile' not found in EXEC

but

try:
self.__cur.execute(sql)
except dbi.program-error,e:
print " caught "
raise

causes


What, in general, is the offender here? The hyphen in
"dbi.program-error" or the dot?

 

[Brian Herbert Withun]

try:
self.__cur.execute(sql)
except dbi.program-error,e:
print " caught "
raise


should be changed to:

try:
self.__cur.execute(sql)
except dbi.progError,e:
print " caught "
raise

In my infinite googling I found some source code that showed the actual
name of this exception class. I can't explain why it reports the
exception as "dbi.program-error" when left unhandled...