>>>>> seldan24 <selda...@gmail.com> (s) wrote:
>s> Hello,
>s> I'm fairly new at Python so hopefully this question won't be too
>s> awful. I am writing some code that will FTP to a host, and want to
>s> catch any exception that may occur, take that and print it out
>s> (eventually put it into a log file and perform some alerting action).
>s> I've figured out two different ways to do this, and am wondering which
>s> is the best (i.e. cleanest, 'right' way to proceed). I'm also trying
>s> to understand exactly what occurs for each one.
>s> The first example:
>s> from ftplib import FTP
>s> try:
>s> ftp = FTP(ftp_host)
>s> ftp.login(ftp_user, ftp_pass)
>s> except Exception, err:
>s> print err
I think you should restrict yourself to those exceptions that are
related to ftp. Do you want to catch an exception like a misspelling in
one of the variables?
from ftplib import FTP, all_errors
try:
ftp = FTP(ftp_host)
ftp.login(ftp_user, ftp_pass)
except all_errors, err:
print err
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