topic Re: Error Trapping in Python Questions

Error Trapping

JoeBorgione — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:06:12 GMT

I need to parse out address elements (house-num, pre-dir, street-name, suf-dir, street-type) from a single string field into individual fields. All my addresses should in the form of pre-dir, house-num, street-name, suf-dir or suf-type depending on the street name

Not a big deal, but my current script errors out with a 999999 error. This tells me that somewhere down the line I have an address that does not follow the form above (hence should...) At any rate is there a way to trap the error in such a fashion that I and make it an exception, or give me the record oid of the offending record?

Version 10.2.2 arcgis, appears to be Python 2.7.5 installed:

Re: Error Trapping

WesMiller — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:11:37 GMT

Did you try the standardize address tool

Re: Error Trapping

IanMurray — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:13:09 GMT

Hey Joe,

You can catch the error in a try-except block. This should allow your script to run on the rest of your values, and you can put messages in the except block telling which features had the issue.

See https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/errors.html section 8.3

Re: Error Trapping

JoeBorgione — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:29:23 GMT

I more or less did it that on my own and found the offending records, fixed them and ran the script.

Re: Error Trapping

JoeBorgione — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:30:29 GMT

I'll give this a try.