As a relative newcomer to Python, I like it a lot but I'm dismayed at
the difficulty of handling simple errors. In Perl if you want to
anticipate a file-not-found error you can simply do:
open($file) or die("open($file): $!");
and you get an intelligible error message. In Python, to get the same
thing it appears you need at least:
try:
f=open(file)
except IOError, err:
print "open(%s): got %s" % (file, err.strerror)
exit(-1)
Is there a simpler interface or idiom for handling such errors? I
appreciate that Python's exception handling is much more sophisticated
but often I don't need it.
-Tom
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