Re: [Tutor] try and file existence

[Mark Lawrence]

On 15/08/2015 04:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 06:28:09PM -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
try:
     fp = open( user_preferences )
except( PermissionError ):
else:
     with open(user_preferences ) as f:


try:
     fp = open(user_preferences)
except (IOError, OSError) as e:
     handle_error()
else:
     with fp as f:
         handle_file()

I'll just point out that you can catch finer grained errors owing to 
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/.  There is a handy little 
table here 
https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#exception-hierarchy

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Mark Lawrence

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