Another question from the 'Learn to Program...' book:

[Peter Hansen]

Erno Kuusela wrote:
> 
> In article <V8918.29890$uA.343738 at rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>, "Dan
> Hamm" <dan at dmhamm.org> writes:
> 
> | I copied the code example from page 95 (no errata sheet data on this):
> | import os, time
> 
> | try: # initialize files and variables
> [...]
> | except:
> |     print 'ERROR: Failed to create new menu'
> 
> | But when I run it, it just prints out the error message without modifying
> | the file.
> 
> bare except: is bad for the reason you just discovered :) try taknig
> the code out of the try/except block and you'll get a better error.

Agreed, although easier to do than that, and requiring less reformatting
etc., is to insert "raise" after the print statement.

-Peter