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Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file

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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> writes:

> Therefore you need to continue _only_ if you get EEXIST. Otherwise
> abort.

If you target Python 3.3 or later, you can catch “FileExistsError”
<URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#FileExistsError>
which is far simpler than messing around with ‘errno’ values.

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Ben Finney

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Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file zoom <zoom@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-12 13:29 +0100
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-12 07:37 -0500
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-03-12 08:33 -0500
  Re:Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-03-12 14:22 -0400
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-03-12 12:38 -0700
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-03-13 09:19 +1100
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-12 23:04 +0000
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-13 11:22 +1100

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