[Tutor] Error handling

[Russel Winder]

Michael,

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 15:20 -0700, Michael Lewis wrote:
[...]

It is perhaps worth noting that in Python 3, the syntax has changed:

> import os, errno
> try:
> 
>     os.makedirs('a/b/c')
> except OSError, e:

except OSError as e :

> 
>     if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
> 
>         raise

This "as" syntax works in 2.6 and 2.7 so is probably the syntax to use
unless you have to use very old versions of Python.  I think the "as"
syntax makes it clearer that e is a variable referring to the instance
of OSError that causes the except clause to execute if it does.

-- 
Russel.
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