Help with capturing error

[Diez B. Roggisch]

tekion schrieb:
> Hello,
> I am getting the following error and my script is bailing out because
> of it. I have tried capturing it but it does not seem to work.  Below
> is the error:
> 
> ValueError: I/O operation on closed file
> 
> 
> the above error is received when, the following code snippet is
> executed:
>                 try:
>     117          self.xml_file.close()
>     118       except ValueError:
>     119          print "file, %s is already closed" % self.seek_file
> 
> Any idea why line 118, is not capturing the error? Thanks.

This is not valid python - it obviously isn't indented properly.

The following piece of code works flawlessly for me:



outf = open("/tmp/test.dat", "w")
outf.write("foo")
outf.close()
try:
     outf.close()
except ValueError:
     pass



Diez