On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:40 AM, bvdp <b...@mellowood.ca> wrote: > For example, I'm writing a little program do copy specific files to a USB > stick. To do the actual copy I'm using: > > try: > shutil.copy(s, os.path.join(usbpath, songname)) > except ... > > now, I need to figure out just what exceptions to handle.
Here's a bit of a left-field thought: Maybe none of them. What are you actually doing when you get an exception? Can you plausibly recover? If not - that is, if you're going to abort the whole operation anyway - then save yourself the trouble of writing the try/catch, and just let the exception propagate up (to the console, if nowhere else). On the other hand, if you want to simply report the error and continue on (meaning you get as many songs copied as possible), then do what others have recommended and catch OSError. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
