I was simply following the examples in the python-libvirt repo. If those methods raise exceptions I'll definitely change to try/catch. Thank you. The maintainer of the repo should update the examples and documentation if exceptions are raised by those.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 05:31 Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:32:09AM -0400, Jeremy Markle wrote:
> I'm using the python-libvirt library and finding that I cannot get
> .destroy() or .shutdown() to work.
>
> https://github.com/simora/docker-libvirt-flask/blob/cba6041b47bdf4ccb3b9506a0379cf8c788a9a57/root/app/mqtt.py#L96

Your code has alot of "< 0" checks. This is the C API behaviour to return -1
on error. In python we raise exceptions on error. so you try try/except to
catch them

Daniel