Dave Angel wrote: > Worse, even if the exception cannot be thrown on a non-Windows > environment, leaving it undefined makes it very awkward to write > portable code. An except clause that can never happen in a particular > environment is pretty innocent. Or somebody can use a base class for > his except clause, to catch this error and other related ones. But it > blows up if you explicitly use this exception. I think that needs > documentation, at a minimum.
WindowsError is a subclass of OSError that contains additional Windows specific error information. Just catch OSError and you are on the safe side. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
