"oscartheduck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |I have a small script for doing some ssh stuff for me. I could have | written it as shell script, but wanted to improve my python skills | some. | | RIght now, I'm not catching a syntax error as I'd like to. | | Here's my code: | | #!/usr/bin/env python | import sys | import os | | port = input("Please enter a port to connect on. If you're unsure or | just want the default of port 2024 just hit enter -- ") | | | try: | if port > 65535: | print "That's not a valid port number, sorry. Between 0 and 65535 | is cool." | sys.exit() | else: | cmd = 'su root -c "/usr/sbin/sshd -p %s"' % port | except SyntaxError: | cmd = 'su root -c "/usr/sbin/sshd -p 2024;exit"' | | os.system(cmd) | | | I'm under the impression that the except should catch the syntax error | and execute the "default" command, but hitting enter at the input | value doesn't lead to that. Any ideas what's going wrong?
Try putting the input statement after the try statement. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
