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def evaluate_error_flag(error_flag, output):
    """Decorator for processing error messages. Calls embedded within functions.

        :error_flag:        True (error) or False (no error).

        :function:          Either the error message (if error) or the data being validated (if no error).

        :returns:           Validated data (if no error)
    """
        def evaluate_error(error_flag, output):
            func(error_flag, output)
	    if error_flag:
                print(output)
            return output
        return evaluate_error

@evaluate_error_flag
def try_function(*args):
    """Wrapper uses a try statement and the wrapper to check for validity of statements.
    """
    def try_func(*args):
        try:
            return False, func(*args)
        except:
            return True, "Error in function {}.".format(str(function))
    return try_func

@try_function
def do_something(some_data, some_other_data):
    # some code
    pass