Hi, We're on Python 2.6 (RHEL based system...) - I don't believe this exposes FileNotFoundError =(.
Cheers, Victor On Monday, 28 October 2013 17:36:05 UTC+11, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Victor Hooi <victorh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is it acceptable to use try-except in order to achieve this? E.g.: > > > > > > try: > > > # Try to open up the SQLite file, and lookup the required entries > > > except OSError: > > > # Open an empty SQLite file, and create the schema > > > > > > > > > My thinking is that it is (easier to ask forgiveness than permission), but > > I just wanted to check if there is a better way of achieving this? > > > > That looks fine as a model, but is OSError what you want to be > > catching? I'd go with FileNotFoundError if that's what you're looking > > for - OSError would also catch quite a bit else, like permissions > > errors. > > > > ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
