[Zope] try clause in external method

[Chris Withers]

Jonathan wrote:
> 
> A couple of things...
> 
> 1) Have bare try/except clauses may cause you grief ;-)19

Specifically, in this case, I'll bet an "unexpected exception" is being 
raised and swallowed...

> 2) When an error is trapped by the 'try' statement the transaction is 
> not committed (ie. nothing is written to your db), only the 'except' 
> statement is executed.

Actually, I don't think that's true. The transaction will be committed 
by the publisher machiner that calls the external method...

Chris

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