Handle generator exceptions in its consumer

Question

This is a follow-up to Handle an exception thrown in a generator and discusses a more general problem.

I have a function that reads data in different formats. All fo

Answer 1

An example of a possible design:

from StringIO import StringIO
import csv

blah = StringIO('this,is,1\nthis,is\n')

def parse_csv(stream):
    for row in csv.reader(stream):
        try:
            yield int(row[2])
        except (IndexError, ValueError) as e:
            pass # don't yield but might need something
        # All others have to go up a level - so it wasn't parsable
        # So if it's an IOError you know why, but this needs to catch
        # exceptions potentially, just let the major ones propogate

for record in parse_csv(blah):
    print record