Re: Catching external program exceptions

2008-01-01 Thread Ben Finney
Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to catch exceptions thrown by programs started by the os.system > function, as indicated by a non-zero return code (e.g. the mount > utility). That's not an exception. It's referred to as an "exit status" or (often) some short form or variation of that t

Re: Catching external program exceptions

2008-01-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:57:44 -0200, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > I need to catch exceptions thrown by programs started by the os.system > function, > as indicated by a non-zero return code (e.g. the mount utility). For Notice that these are two different things. You can wait until the

Catching external program exceptions

2008-01-01 Thread Marty
I need to catch exceptions thrown by programs started by the os.system function, as indicated by a non-zero return code (e.g. the mount utility). For example, if I get the following results in a bash shell: $mount test mount: can't find /home/marty/test in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab then I want