In article <mailman.599.1258510702.2873.python-l...@python.org>, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >It's not clear to me whether WindowsError is available on linux or >not, after I read the document.
Here's what I told a co-worker to do yesterday: if os.name == 'nt': DiskError = (OSError, WindowsError) else: DiskError = WindowsError try: disk_operation() except DiskError: logit() -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian W. Kernighan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list