Daniel Schüle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> currently I am using this instance method
>
> def getFilecontent(self, filename):
> try:
> return file(filename).read()
> except IOError, err_msg:
> print err_msg
> sys.exit(1)
> except:
> print "unknown exception in PackageParser"
> sys.exit(1)
>
> I tried to open a file for which I don't have the permissions to read
> (etc/shadow)
> and I tried to open a file which doesn't exist
> in both cases I got IOError exception, so my question is
> does it make sence to have
>
> except:
> print "unknown exception in PackageParser"
> sys.exit(1)
>
> or is it a dead code?
> are there some good reference sources to see what file() and read()
> may throw, IMHO it's OS dependent.
>
> Regards, Daniel
You also could do something like
def getFilecontent(self, filename):
try:
return file(filename).read()
except IOError, err_msg:
print err_msg
sys.exit(1)
except Exception ,e:
print e.__class__, str(e)
Then the next tiome this happens you have more information on what
happened
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