zipfile module and exceptions

[nobody]

Thank you, I did overlook the else: possibility.

"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
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>     >> The problem is that in the except clause the z.close() fails
because
>     >> the z is not known. Am I not supposed to close the file in the case
>     >> of IOError? If not the solution is simple... Any ideas?
>
> Try something like this instead:
>
>     try:
>         z = zipfile.ZipFile(file, "r")
>     except (possible creation errors here):
>         print >> sys.stderr, "Can't open zipfile %s for reading" % file
>     else:
>         if z.testzip() is None:
>             self.listBox2.Append(file)
>         else:
>             self.listBox3.Append(file)
>         z.close()
>
> Skip
>