open() and EOFError
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Mon Jul 7 04:00:14 EDT 2014
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:04:12 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Are there any circumstances where merely *opening* a file (before
>> reading it) can raise EOFError?
>
> I don't think so. As far as I know, the only built-in thing that raises
> EOFError is input() (and raw_input() in Py2).
Thanks. That's what I thought.
How do people feel about code like this?
try:
name = input("Enter file name, or Ctrl-D to exit")
# On Windows, use Ctrl-Z [enter] instead.
fp = open(name)
except EOFError:
sys.exit()
except IOError:
handle_bad_file(name)
else:
handle_good_file(fp)
--
Steven
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