Want to catch pywintypes.api_error

Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Tue Mar 13 08:31:50 EST 2001


Franz GEIGER wrote:

> When I start win32api.FindFiles(filespec) with a non-existing filespec it
> throws an exception of class pywintypes.api_error. But a "except
> pywintypes.api_error, e:" does not work. Using "except Exception, e:" does
> the job, because Exception is the base class. But how can I catch api_error?
> What do I miss?
> 

win32api.error

Mark.




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