python error when spss command not executed

[mpirritano]

All listers,

 

I’m running python externally. I’m getting a python error whenever an spss command in spss.Submit does not execute.

 

For example, if there is no variable name ‘varx’ when the spss.Submit has a delete variables varx in it I get an spss error and the command is not executed, but python also raises an error and does not complete the rest of the spss.Submit.

 

In the spss GUI  I can include something like this and it runs fine although it raises the error that there is not variable with this name. I have the same issue if I try to create a variable that is already there. SPSS raises an error and then python quits.

 

I want to allow for the possibility that a variable has been created already. I’d like to just be able to always include spss commands to create it. But it seems that if I do that python quits, and if I try to delete it first and it’s not there python quits.

 

Is there a way around this? Am I making an error or is this just how spss.Submit works in python.

 

Thanks

Matt

 

 

 

Matthew Pirritano, Ph.D.

Research Analyst IV

Medical Services Initiative (MSI)

Orange County Health Care Agency

[phone]

 

[Jon K Peck]

Submit stops on an error.  You can use a try/except block to capture the exception and take appropriate action.

Hth,
Jon Peck
(From. ABQ)

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  From: "Pirritano, Matthew" [[hidden email]]
  Sent: 02/14/2011 09:15 AM PST
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  Subject: [SPSSX-L] python error when spss command not executed

All listers,

 

I’m running python externally. I’m getting a python error whenever an spss command in spss.Submit does not execute.

 

For example, if there is no variable name ‘varx’ when the spss.Submit has a delete variables varx in it I get an spss error and the command is not executed, but python also raises an error and does not complete the rest of the spss.Submit.

 

In the spss GUI  I can include something like this and it runs fine although it raises the error that there is not variable with this name. I have the same issue if I try to create a variable that is already there. SPSS raises an error and then python quits.

 

I want to allow for the possibility that a variable has been created already. I’d like to just be able to always include spss commands to create it. But it seems that if I do that python quits, and if I try to delete it first and it’s not there python quits.

 

Is there a way around this? Am I making an error or is this just how spss.Submit works in python.

 

Thanks

Matt

 

 

 

Matthew Pirritano, Ph.D.

Research Analyst IV

Medical Services Initiative (MSI)

Orange County Health Care Agency

[phone]