why does popen2 silently ignore IOError?
Andy Gimblett
gimbo at ftech.net
Thu Feb 21 05:31:28 EST 2002
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:53:40PM -0800, Graham Guttocks wrote:
> I thought what I wanted was simple. I'm sending mail by opening a
> pipe to /usr/sbin/sendmail -- if that fails for whatever reason (e.g,
> sendmail program is missing) I want an exception raised with some
> indication of the problem, instead of the current silent failure.
Have you looked at using smtplib to send mail, rather than calling
sendmail? It's very nice.
-Andy
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