mwt wrote: > Hi - > I'm having a little trouble using exceptions properly. I currently have > an initialization function on a little app that looks like this: > > def __init__(self, config_file): > self.fahdata = fahdata.FAHData() > self.INI = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() > if os.path.exists(config_file): > try: > self.INI.read(config_file) > except ConfigParser.ParsingError: > print "Cannot parse configuration file!" > > This is just a hack I came up with to load the configuration file and > try to test for serious problems with it. Trouble is, it doesn't really > do that, and furthermore, if there are small problems with the file > (such as a NoSectionError) the whole program bombs. Instead, I would > like to test for the relevant Errors and Exceptions, and have the > program deal with them gracefully.
All the ConfigParser exceptions are subclasses of ConfigParser.Error so if you catch that instead of ConfigParser.ParsingError your code will catch NoSectionError as well. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
