Erwin S. Andreasen wrote: > Did you by any chance do something like: > > except ValueError, IndexError: > > at some point earlier in this function? That, when catching ValueError > assigns the resulting exception to IndexError (and so the following > except IndexError: wouldn't work as IndexError is no longer what you > think it is). The correct syntax for catching multiple exceptions is: > > except (ValueError, IndexError), targetVariable: > > You could verify this by doing a print repr(IndexError) before your > line 202, to see that it really is the IndexError builtin. >
hey, nice catch. In fact I did exactly that. in my search for a solution for this problem i discovered the catch-a-tuple-of-exceptions error, and in fact fixed it, but didn't realize that it was related to the one I posted. (the idea that exceptions can be redefined caught me off guard). thanks (to both of you who responded), -derek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
