2012/7/13 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > Well of course it does. If copytree fails, the try block ends and > execution skips straight to the except block, which runs, and then the > program halts because there's nothing else to be done. > > That at least is my guess, based on the described symptoms. >
Well I think that's what I was stupidly missing, I always had only one possibly failing thing in a try/except block, and I always gave for granted that it doesn't jump to the except block on first error, but of course it makes more sense if it does... Thanks a lot -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
