Sorry, but replying on list now as well. Either way, seems that while did have the import statement higher up in that file for the sys module, maybe there was something interfering with that, since when changed that statement to sys.exit() it's now working without any issues.
And, secondly, the reason I'm using tabs to handle indentation is partly since the editor I specifically am using for python source editing prefers that for use by VI/blind guys, and that's why it suits me, but anyway...<smile> Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message --------------- Subject: Re: [python-win32] 'exit is not defined' From: "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:43:47 +0200 To: Jacob Kruger <[email protected]> >Hi, > >2011/6/3 Jacob Kruger <[email protected]>: >> What I'm doing is trying to open a text file, but if it's not there, then I >> tell the code to exit(), and while it works when running the source code >> using the python executable, after I have run the code through py2exe, and >> then try testing it, I get the following message: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "mapData.py", line 39, in <module> >> NameError: name 'exit' is not defined >> >> The following is the actual little bit of code that's generating this after >> being py2exe'ed - the last line is the line number being mentioned above: >> >> try: >> fData = open(sMapName + ".txt", "r") >> except: >> fData = None >> finally: >> if not bool(fData): print("invalid map name - " + sMapName + ".txt"); >> exit() >> >> >> Any thoughts/ideas/alternative workarounds? > >"exit" is in the sys module, you shoud have an "import sys" somewhere, >and then calll "sys.exit()". >Maybe you tested your script from some IDE which already does "from >sys import exit" for you? > >By the way, your code could be improved in several ways: >- don't use tabs for indentation, use spaces instead. >- "if not bool(fData)" could be rewritten as "if not fData" >- open() always return a file object, so the logic could be: > >import sys > >try: > fData = open(sMapName + ".txt", "r") >except IOError: > print("invalid map name - " + sMapName + ".txt") > sys.exit() > >I hope I did not spoil all the fun - coding with Python is fun! > >-- >Amaury Forgeot d'Arc _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
