Catching a specific IO error

Tina I tinaweb at bestemselv.com
Wed Apr 25 03:01:39 EDT 2007


Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> You can get the 2 as the errno exception attribute. BTW, 2 == errno.ENOENT
> 
>      try:
>          export = open(self.exportFileName , 'w')
>      except IOError, e:
>         if e.errno==errno.ENOENT:
>             # handle the "No such file or directory" error
>          # calling an error handling method.
> 
> See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-exceptions.html
> 
> --Gabriel Genellina

Perfect! Just what I was looking for. Thank you! :)

Tina



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