[Tutor] Cannot fix OSError (try/except)

[Lloyd Kvam]

You can pass the name of a directory.  If it can't read a file within
the directory, it abandons the rest of the directory contents.  I just
tested that.  The except will continue to the next file/directory in YOUR
list, but you've potentially skipped readable files in the directory with
an error.

Alan Gauld wrote:

> LLoyd,
> 
> 
>>Is there any way a try/except at this level could complete building
> 
> the tar file
> 
>>while only omitting the unreadable files?  It seems to me that only
> 
> a try/except
> 
>>in the tarfile module could actually finish building the best
> 
> possible tar
> 
> I thought the code I posted would do that?
> 
> # open tarfile up here
> 
> for f in filelist:
>    try: tarfile.TarFile.add()
>    except OSERror: print 'couldn't add', f
> 
> # close tarfile down here
> 
> 
> 
>>Am I missing something?
> 
> 
> Maybe, or maybe it's me that missing something?
> 
> 
> Alan G.
> 
> 

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