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Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself

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Cameron Simpson wrote at 2024-11-12 08:17 +1100:
>On 11Nov2024 18:24, dieter.maurer@online.de <dieter.maurer@online.de> wrote:
>>Loris Bennett wrote at 2024-11-11 15:05 +0100:
>>>I have the following in my program:
>>>    try:
>>>        logging.config.fileConfig(args.config_file)
>>>        config = configparser.ConfigParser()
>>>        config.read(args.config_file)
>>>        if args.verbose:
>>>            print(f"Configuration file: {args.config_file}")
>>>    except FileNotFoundError:
>>>        print(f"Error: configuration file {args.config_file} not found.  Exiting.")
>>
>>Do not replace full error information (including a traceback)
>>with your own reduced error message.
>>If you omit your "try ... except FileNotFoundError`
>>(or start the `except` clause with a `raise`), you
>>will learn where in the code the exception has been raised
>>and likely as well what was not found (Python is quite good
>>with such error details).
>
>Actually, file-not-found is pretty well defined - the except action
>itself is fine in that regard.

The original exception likely tells us which file was not found.

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Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself dieter.maurer@online.de - 2024-11-12 17:18 +0100

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