Can't Write File

Rami Chowdhury rami.chowdhury at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 11:23:26 EST 2009


On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:00:44 -0800, Victor Subervi  
<victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> Victor Subervi wrote:

>> Wrong?
>> 2) you don't show the error traceback
>>
> because there are none
>
>             try: # It does this, because I've printed 'getpic1.py' etc.
>               getpic = "getpic" + str(w) + ".py"
>               try:
>                 os.remove(getpic)
>               except:
>                 pass

There are no error tracebacks because you're deliberately suppressing them  
with the except: clause above. A bare except: clause *may* be acceptable  
in production code, where you may *want* to silently ignore all errors,  
but if you're trying to debug something then it's really not helpful.


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