#595 raise an exception if arguments are not numeric

Noto/Servers/NotoPyIfDistributor/src/_ifdist.py

@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ def main(argv):
 	
 	commandstr=[]
 	
+	
+	try:
 		if int(argv[0]) not in range (1,3):
 			sys.stderr.write(str('error Enter a valid input channel number'))
 			userLogger.logError("Enter a valid input channel number")
@@ -101,6 +103,12 @@ def main(argv):
 	
 		selectedAtt=argv[2]
 
+	except ValueError:
+		sys.stderr.write(str('error Enter a numeric value'))
+		userLogger.logError("Enter a numeric value")
+		simpleClient.disconnect()
+		sys.exit(1)
+
 	#if selectedPol and selectedAtt are -1 print information on current pol and att
 	if int(selectedPol) == -1 and float(selectedAtt)==-1:
 		commandstr=[selectedInput,"att"+argv[0]]
@@ -115,11 +123,13 @@ def main(argv):
 		commandstr=[selectedInput+","+selectedPol, "att"+argv[0]+","+selectedAtt]
 
 	answerstr = ""
+	
 	for i in range(0,len(commandstr)):
 		userLogger.logNotice("IFDist setup according to %s command"%(commandstr[i]))
 
 		answer=send_command(ip,port, commandstr[i])
 		answerstr+= str(answer)
+        
 		if answer=="Fail":
 			newEx = ComponentErrorsImpl.SocketErrorExImpl()
 			add_user_message(newEx,"Unable to communicate to IFDist")
@@ -138,7 +148,9 @@ def main(argv):
 		else:
 			userLogger.logNotice( "Answer: %s"%(answer))
 	
-	sys.stderr.write(str(answerstr))
+	
+	print >> sys.stderr, answerstr.replace(","," ")
+
 
 if __name__=="__main__":
    main(sys.argv[1:])