I do not see the point in doing so (why not just copy+paste that string?), but the errno (specifically ENOENT) corresponds to the POSIX.1 error number, and the string "No such file or directory" is done in C via strerror(ENOENT); (check errno(3) and strerror(3)).
I doubt there is something that does this in the standard library (just checked, there's an errno module, but it is quite sparse), but a simple C extension would be trivial to write. However, the best way is just to copy and paste that text into your program, I mean, why not? raise OSError("[Errno 2] No such file or directory") On 4/21/06, David Hirschfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wasn't clear enough in my original post. > > I know how to raise a basic OSError or IOError, but what if I want to raise > specifically an "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"? > Somehow it must be possible to raise the error with the correct information > to bring up the standard message, but where do I find the right values to > give? > > Thanks, > -Dave > > > > alisonken1 wrote: > To raise a specific error, just find the error that you want to raise, > then give the error a text string to print: ex. > > raise IOError("This raises an IO error") > > On the stderr output, when the routine hits this line, you will get: > > > > > > raise IOError("This raises an IOError") > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > IOError: This raises an IOError > > > Just be sure of the error that you want to raise, since some of them > will do stuff like closing open file descriptors as well. > > > > > -- > Presenting: > mediocre nebula. > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- Kelvie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list