help with an error msg please

[Pavol Lisy]

On 5/14/17, Pavol Lisy <pavol.lisy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/17, Charles T. Smith <cts.private.yahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm stumped by this:
>
>> $ PYTHONPATH= python  except
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "except", line 7, in <module>
>>     except getopt.error, msg:
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'error'
>>
>>
>> The program is:
>>
>> $ cat  except
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>>
>> import getopt
>>
>> try:
>>     opts, args = getopt.getopt (sys.argv[1:], "t:")
>> except getopt.error, msg:
>>     raise "Usage: some other way", msg
>>
>> what am I doing wrong?
>
> Did you create getopt.py in your working directory? If so then try to
> rename it.
>
> PL.

And remove getopt.pyc!

PL.