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Re: Dealing with exceptions

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On 3/2/2013 12:40 PM, bvdp wrote:

> But, I know there can be other errors as well. Doing some tests, I
> know that certain filenames are invalid (I think a "?" or unicode
> char is invalid when writing to a FAT32 filesystem). And, so what
> exception is that? Without actually creating the error, I can't
> figure it out.

So use the interactive interpreter (or idle, or ipython) and create the 
error. You should always have it open when editing. Using less time that 
it took you to write the above. 3.3, win7, (idle)

 >>> open('sdjhfjshdfkjsh')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
     open('sdjhfjshdfkjsh')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'sdjhfjshdfkjsh'

Now, does shutil pass on FileNotFoundError? I will let you experiment.

There are error conditions that are hard to generate, but a bad file 
name is not one of them.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 09:40 -0800
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 18:52 +0100
    Re: Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 11:35 -0800
      Re: Dealing with exceptions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-03 01:41 +0000
    Re: Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 11:35 -0800
    Re: Dealing with exceptions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-03 00:41 +0000
      Re: Dealing with exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 12:04 +1100
    Re: Dealing with exceptions Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-03-03 23:01 +0000
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 10:58 -0700
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 11:00 -0700
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 05:21 +1100
    Re: Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 11:39 -0800
    Re: Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 11:39 -0800
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-03-02 19:18 +0000
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 14:27 -0500
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 11:43 -0800
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-03-02 16:23 -0500
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 09:16 +1100
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-03-02 18:08 -0500
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 10:17 +1100

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