En Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:47:16 -0300, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Following piece of code can capture IOError when the file doesn't > exist, also, other unknown exceptions can be captured when I press > Ctrl-C while the program is sleeping(time.sleep). Now the question is: > when I run the non-exist command, the exception cannot be captured. > So far so good, then I changed the code to run a non-exist command > "wrong_command_test"(commented the open and sleep lines), then the > script printed: > sh: wrong_command_test: command not found > well Done That's because it is not an exception, it is an error message coming from your shell, not from Python. You can extract the exit status from what os.system returns (see the details on the docs for os.system); in particular, usually "command not found" is error 127 This is a list of more-or-less standard exit codes: http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/exitcodes.html -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
