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| References | <ac7cf18f-d4f4-41ef-966d-a35d2d0e39a8@googlegroups.com> |
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| Date | 2013-10-28 17:36 +1100 |
| Subject | Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.1677.1382942174.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it acceptable to use try-except in order to achieve this? E.g.: > > try: > # Try to open up the SQLite file, and lookup the required entries > except OSError: > # Open an empty SQLite file, and create the schema > > > My thinking is that it is (easier to ask forgiveness than permission), but I just wanted to check if there is a better way of achieving this? That looks fine as a model, but is OSError what you want to be catching? I'd go with FileNotFoundError if that's what you're looking for - OSError would also catch quite a bit else, like permissions errors. ChrisA
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Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-27 20:43 -0700
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-28 06:18 +0000
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-10-28 10:48 +0100
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-28 17:36 +1100
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-27 23:57 -0700
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-28 18:01 +1100
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-28 07:19 +0000
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-28 18:02 +1100
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2013-10-28 10:17 +0200
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-10-28 19:43 -0400
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 16:08 -0700
Re: Try-except for flow control in reading Sqlite Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-10-31 22:45 -0400
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