okay - but why does the response come back like No such file or directory def b ('n', 'e', 't', ' ', 'a', 'l', 'r', 'e', 'a', 'd', 'y', ' ', 'r', 'u', 'n', 'n', 'i', 'n', 'g')
On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > What makes you think it has to do with user-defined exceptions? > >>>> try : > ... raise Exception("hello") > ... except Exception as (errno, errText) : > ... print "whatever" > ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > ValueError: need more than 1 values to unpack > > An Exception is an object, not a tuple of number and text. > > Raise an instance of the exception, not the class: > > raise NetActiveError("net already running") > > And then catch the exception object > > except NetActiveError as err: > print err.args > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Chris Hare <ch...@labr.net> wrote: >> >> I have a block of test code, where I am trying to raise and catch my own >> user defined exception >> >> class NetActiveError(RuntimeError): >> def __init__(self,error): >> self.args = error >> >> def a(): >> try: >> fh = open("me.txt", "r") >> except Exception as (errno, errText): >> print errText >> try: >> b() >> except NetActiveError as (errono, errText): >> print errno, errText >> >> def b(): >> print "def b" >> raise NetActiveError,"net already running" >> >> >> a() >> >> >> When I run it though, I get the following error: >> >> chare$ python z >> No such file or directory >> def b >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "z", line 20, in <module> >> a() >> File "z", line 12, in a >> except NetActiveError as (errono, errText): >> ValueError: too many values to unpack >> >> >> What am I doing wrong here? >> >> >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list