Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> writes: > This is probably somewhat off-topic, but where would I find a list of > what each error code in WindowsError means? WindowsError is so broad > that it could be difficult to decide what to do in an except clause. > Fortunately, sys.exc_info()[1][0] holds the specific error code, so I > could put in an if...elif...else clause inside the except clause if I > needed to, but I don't know what all the different errors are.
Since Python 2.5, the errno attribute maps the Windows error to error codes that match the attributes of module errno. http://docs.python.org/library/exceptions.html#exceptions.WindowsError So for some purposes you can use the same UNIXy error codes you can use on most other platforms. Example: import errno try: operation() except WindowsError, exc: if exc.errno != errno.ENOENT: raise print "file/directory does not exist" Obviously whether this is useful depends on the error cases you need to handle. Undocumented: when there's no useful mapping to errno, you get errno.EINVAL. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
