22. fatal():
Write a message and stop
When an any unexpected error occurs, this routine is called
to write a message to the standard error stream and
terminate execution. Since this script is intended to be
run as a cron job, these errors will be
e-mailed to the script's owner.
webstats.py
# - - - f a t a l - - -
def fatal ( *L ):
"""Write an error message and terminate.
[ L is a list of strings ->
sys.stderr +:= elements of L, concatenated
stop execution ]
"""
error ( "Fatal error: ", "".join(L) )
sys.exit ( 1 )
