Re: Dealing with exceptions

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Date	2013-03-03 10:17 +1100
Subject	Re: Dealing with exceptions
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.2804.1362266283.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 3/2/2013 5:16 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> That's actually a perfectly valid file name, but one that doesn't
>> happen to have a corresponding file. However, the same technique will
>> work with the OP's description of "a filename which the FAT32 didn't
>> like" too.
>
>
> Yeah, that gives a different error and message.
>>>> open('a~`!@#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\<,>.?/')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
>     open('a~`!@#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\<,>.?/')
> OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: 'a~`!@#$%^&*()_-+={[}]|\\<,>.?/'

That should be:

OSError: Profanity not permitted on respectable file systems

ChrisA

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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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