From: Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 21:25:07 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: lib/python/init.py: catch and report pager errors
X-Git-Url: https://git.phdru.name/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89b04ad56e3c4b9e3073c250bb525051c6f1405b;p=dotfiles.git

lib/python/init.py: catch and report pager errors

Most probably it's UnicodeEncodeError.
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diff --git a/lib/python/init.py b/lib/python/init.py
index 6a6ff9a..1697a08 100644
--- a/lib/python/init.py
+++ b/lib/python/init.py
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ def init():
     # set displayhook and excepthook
 
     from pprint import pprint
+    from traceback import format_exception, print_exc
+
     pager = os.environ.get("PAGER") or 'more'
 
     # if your pager is 'less', options '-F' and '-R' must be passed to it,
@@ -165,13 +167,15 @@ def init():
         if value is not None:
             builtins._ = value
         pager = Pager()
-        pager.pprint(value)
+        try:
+            pager.pprint(value)
+        except:
+            pager.stdout = ColoredFile(pager.stdout, '\033[31m')  # red
+            print_exc(file=pager)
         pager.close()
 
     sys.displayhook = displayhook
 
-    from traceback import format_exception
-
     def excepthook(etype, evalue, etraceback):
         lines = format_exception(etype, evalue, etraceback)
         pager = Pager()