On Jul 13, 12:31 pm, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > >>>>> 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?
He quite reasonably could want that, such as if the program is designed to be run from a cron job, or in some other non-interactive way. Just because something is usually a bad idea doesn't mean it always is. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
