BTW, fantastic library !! Job well done.

@DJF3 , hmm... This is an interesting one. I pretty regularly working with room names that have special characters (mostly emoticons in my case). Can you share the full 'Exception' output when you are seeing iteration stop at these items?

You are handling errors correctly. Catching SparkApiError s should show you any errors returned by the Cisco Spark cloud. Note: The exception objects contain the full request and response objects that were involved in the API call, which you can examine from an interactive Python prompt to get additional visibility into what went wrong.

Check out:

except SparkApiError as e:
    pass

>>> e.request

>>> e.response

>>> # Especially:
>>> e.response.text

Weather tried locally (macbook) or using a hosting provider:

#!/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3
# coding=utf-8
import os
from ciscosparkapi import CiscoSparkAPI

os.environ['SPARK_ACCESS_TOKEN'] = 'xyzxyz'
api = CiscoSparkAPI()
try:
    message = api.messages.create('123098123098123098123098123', text='message_text')
    print("New message created, with ID:", message.id)
    print(message.text)
except SparkApiError as e:
    print(e)

There's no difference when using pass instead of print(e)

Generates an error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sparkapitest-message.py", line 14, in
except SparkApiError as e:
NameError: name 'SparkApiError' is not defined

This should absolutely generate an error as both the access token and the room id are wrong.
DJ

...you are correct. It definitely should (and is) generating an exception. To catch a custom / package exception, you have to import that exception into your namespace. You are just missing SparkApiError from your from ciscosparkapi import ... statement.

Your code should look like this:

#!/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3
# coding=utf-8
import os
from ciscosparkapi import CiscoSparkAPI, SparkApiError

os.environ['SPARK_ACCESS_TOKEN'] = 'xyzxyz'
api = CiscoSparkAPI()
try:
    message = api.messages.create('123098123098123098123098123', text='message_text')
    print("New message created, with ID:", message.id)
    print(message.text)
except SparkApiError as e:
    print(e)

Which runs and does indeed catch the exception(s) and print them when they are fired.