On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to raise an exception when os.path.exists fails. I looked > through the exception list on the menu. I'm not sure if IOError is the > most appropriate exception I should use. Could somebody let me know?
Yeah, I'd say IOError: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, May 14 2009, 16:34:51) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5484)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> f=file('nonexistent', 'r') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'nonexistent' ValueError would also be a justifiable choice; the caller gave a value for a filepath that was invalid in that it was non-existent. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list