I have a small script for doing some ssh stuff for me. I could have written it as shell script, but wanted to improve my python skills some.
RIght now, I'm not catching a syntax error as I'd like to. Here's my code: #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import os port = input("Please enter a port to connect on. If you're unsure or just want the default of port 2024 just hit enter -- ") try: if port > 65535: print "That's not a valid port number, sorry. Between 0 and 65535 is cool." sys.exit() else: cmd = 'su root -c "/usr/sbin/sshd -p %s"' % port except SyntaxError: cmd = 'su root -c "/usr/sbin/sshd -p 2024;exit"' os.system(cmd) I'm under the impression that the except should catch the syntax error and execute the "default" command, but hitting enter at the input value doesn't lead to that. Any ideas what's going wrong? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list