Re: [IBMiOSS] Checking return status of Pyhon program

[Jim Steil <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd probably use the logging module to log everything that happens in the
Python program.  Doesn't give your calling CL any good info, but it will
let you analyze after the fact to see if it was successful or not...

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I have a CL driver that calls a Python program to retrieve data via a
> webservice.
>
> CALL       PGM(QP2SHELL) PARM('/QOpenSys/usr/bin/python3'
> '/NYSLA/YMAR701.py')
>
> I'm not seeing an obvious way to validate if the Python program ran
> successfully.  It has try/on exception blocks so it won't blow up.
>
> For example, I made a slight change and had an indentation error.  Obvious
> Python failure but how can I inform the CL?
>
> Doing a RCVMSG *LAST, I don't see any message "call QP2SHELL ......" like
> I see with "call QSH ......".
>
> I see some documentation that IBM recommends calling QSH and invoking PASE
> thru that.
>
> Suggestions?  Does anyone have an example of using the QSH method and
> error checking that they could share?
>
> Thanks.
>
>  Roger Harman
>  COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
>
>
>
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