New submission from Robin Jarry <diabete...@gmail.com>:
When trying to open a non existing MSI database, an obscure "unknown error 6e"
is raised.
Could it be possible to get a more explicit message such as "File not found" or
whatever ?
Thanks :)
Here is a example:
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D:\>ll
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 4 tcinteg Administ 0 Nov 30 2010 RECYCLER
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Information
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D:\>python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import msilib
>>> db = msilib.OpenDatabase("I_Do_Not_Exist.msi", msilib.MSIDBOPEN_READONLY)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
_msi.MSIError: unknown error 6e
>>>
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 138781
nosy: Robin.Jarry, loewis
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: [msilib] Ambiguous exception message when trying to open a non existing
MSI database
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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