[Tutor] my own error code when no argument is sent
Danny Yoo
dyoo at cs.wpi.edu
Tue Jun 17 05:05:50 CEST 2008
when i execute my program without an argument i receive,
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> infile = sys.argv[1]
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> IndexError: list index out of range
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> is there a way that i could suppress this and add my own error code
The direct way to handle this is to check the length of sys.argv
first. sys.argv is a list, so you can ask the list for its length.
Do you know how to do that?
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