On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:54 PM, J <dreadpiratej...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it be better to wrap the call and catch the OSError there, or > wrap the whole with open() block in the function itself? > > My thought is to wrap the with open() call in the function so that I'm > not wrapping the function call every time I use the class somewhere, > but then I am not sure of that as it leads to nested try blocks like > so:
It definitely shouldn't be done that way, since you might catch exceptions in other circumstances too. Try this: try: f = open(dest, 'wb', 0) except OSError as exc: ... with f: try: ... except IOError as exc: ... else: ... -- Devin > try: > with open(dest, 'wb', 0) as outfile: > try: > stuff > except IOError as exec: > more stuff > else: > other stuff > except OSError as exc: > error handling stuff > return False > > > I think, functionally, that should work, but should nested try/except > blocks be avoided? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list