Dealing with exceptions
Kwpolska
kwpolska at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 12:52:19 EST 2013
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:40 PM, bvdp <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:
> Every time I write a program with exception handling (and I suppose that includes just about every program I write!) I need to scratch my brain when I create try blocks.
>
> For example, I'm writing a little program do copy specific files to a USB stick. To do the actual copy I'm using:
>
> try:
> shutil.copy(s, os.path.join(usbpath, songname))
> except ...
>
> now, I need to figure out just what exceptions to handle. Let's see:
>
> IOError that means that the disk is full or otherwise buggered. Better dump out of the loop.
>
> But, I know there can be other errors as well. Doing some tests, I know that certain filenames are invalid (I think a "?" or unicode char is invalid when writing to a FAT32 filesystem). And, so what exception is that? Without actually creating the error, I can't figure it out.
>
> In this case, I can run the program an number of times and parse out the errors and write code to catch various things. But, I think I'm missing something completely. Guess what I'm looking for is a list of possible (probable?) errors for the shutil.copy() command. And, in a much bigger manual, for most other commands.
>
> Maybe I'm just venting about FAT32 filesystems :)
>
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IOError and OSError should cover all copy problems, I think.
Also, you can do `except:` for a catch-all, but it is discouraged
unless you have REALLY good reasons to do this. And, most of the
time, you don’t.
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