Gnumed.timelinelib.utils

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# Source Code for Module Gnumed.timelinelib.utils

     1  # Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018  Rickard Lindberg, Roger Lindberg
     2  #
     3  # This file is part of Timeline.
     4  #
     5  # Timeline is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
     6  # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
     7  # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
     8  # (at your option) any later version.
     9  #
    10  # Timeline is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    11  # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    12  # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    13  # GNU General Public License for more details.
    14  #
    15  # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    16  # along with Timeline.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
    17
    18  """Contains non-gui related, utility functions."""
    19
    20
    21 -def ex_msg(e):
    22      """
    23      Return exception error string.
    24      Solves a UnicodeEncodeError problem.
    25      """
    26      try:
    27          return str(e)
    28      except UnicodeEncodeError:
    29          if len(e.args) == 1:
    30              return e.args[0]
    31          else:
    32              # Exceptions raised by Timeline (the only ones that might
    33              # be unicode) should always contain a single unicode message.
    34              # So we should never end up here.
    35              return ""
    36