Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:47:16 -0300, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> Following piece of code can capture IOError when the file doesn't >> exist, also, other unknown exceptions can be captured when I press >> Ctrl-C while the program is sleeping(time.sleep). Now the question is: >> when I run the non-exist command, the exception cannot be captured. > >> So far so good, then I changed the code to run a non-exist command >> "wrong_command_test"(commented the open and sleep lines), then the >> script printed: >> sh: wrong_command_test: command not found >> well Done > > That's because it is not an exception, it is an error message coming > from your shell, not from Python.
Of course if you use subprocess.check_call() instead of os.system(), it will become an exception (CalledProcessError). -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
