On Jul 13, 2:26 pm, seldan24 <selda...@gmail.com> wrote: > The first example: > > from ftplib import FTP > try: > ftp = FTP(ftp_host) > ftp.login(ftp_user, ftp_pass) > except Exception, err: > print err
*If* you really do want to catch *all* exceptions (as mentioned already it is usually better to catch specific exceptions) this is the way to do it. To know why you should look at the class hierarchy on http://docs.python.org/library/exceptions.html. The reason is that you almost never want to be catching SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt etc. catching them will give you trouble at some point (unless you really know what you're doing but then I would suggest you list them explicitly instead of using the bare except statement). While it is true that you could raise an object that is not a subclass from Exception it is very bad practice, you should never do that. And I've haven't seen an external module in the wild that does that in years and the stdlib will always play nice. Regards Floris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
