Example illustrating how to use a decorator to notify you via text message if a long running function crashes.

sms-decorator.py

"""
Example illustrating how to use a decorator to notify you via text message if a
long running function crashes.
"""

import os
import time


# Phone number (You may want to change this).
NUMBER = 1234567890


def wrapper(f):
	def notifier(*args, **kwargs):
		try:
			f(args, kwargs)
		except Exception as e:
			# Check out textbelt.com to learn more about how to use their API.
			os.system("curl -X POST http://textbelt.com/canada -d number=%s -d \"message=%s\"" % (NUMBER, str(e)))

	return notifier

@wrapper
def my_long_running_functio(arg, kwarg="kwarg"):
	time.sleep(5)

	raise RuntimeError("MY ERROR")

if __name__ == '__main__':
	my_long_running_functio("arg")