On Monday, October 15, 2012 1:18:52 PM UTC-4, Wanderer wrote: > On Monday, October 15, 2012 12:34:53 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes, but you've put the message in msg, and Exception doesn't have that > > > > > > attribute. > > > > > > > That's weird. I got this Exception class definition idea from this post by > Guido van Rostrum, Where he gives this main function to look like > > > > import sys > > import getopt > > > > class Usage(Exception): > > def __init__(self, msg): > > self.msg = msg > > > > def main(argv=None): > > if argv is None: > > argv = sys.argv > > try: > > try: > > opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv[1:], "h", ["help"]) > > except getopt.error, msg: > > raise Usage(msg) > > # more code, unchanged > > except Usage, err: > > print >>sys.stderr, err.msg > > print >>sys.stderr, "for help use --help" > > return 2 > > > > if __name__ == "__main__": > > sys.exit(main()) > > > > > > > > > > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4829
Oops. I meant Guido van Rossum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
