WindowsError is not available on linux?

[Peng Yu]

It's not clear to me whether WindowsError is available on linux or
not, after I read the document. But I see WindowsError in shutil.py.
Could you somebody let me know what cause the following error?
.... raise WindowsError('WindowsError')
.... except WindowsError as e:
.... print e
....
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 3, in <module>
NameError: name 'WindowsError' is not defined

 

[Aahz]

It's not clear to me whether WindowsError is available on linux or
not, after I read the document.

Here's what I told a co-worker to do yesterday:

if os.name == 'nt':
DiskError = (OSError, WindowsError)
else:
DiskError = WindowsError

try:
disk_operation()
except DiskError:
logit()
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[Benjamin Kaplan]

Here's what I told a co-worker to do yesterday:

if os.name == 'nt':
   DiskError = (OSError, WindowsError)
else:
   DiskError = WindowsError

try:
   disk_operation()
except DiskError:
   logit()
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Shouldn't that be the other way?
if os.name == 'nt':
DiskError = OSError, WindowsError
else :
DiskError = OSError

 

[exarkun]

Here's what I told a co-worker to do yesterday:

if os.name == 'nt':
DiskError = (OSError, WindowsError)
else:
DiskError = WindowsError

try:
disk_operation()
except DiskError:
logit()

This isn't necessary. WindowsError subclasses OSError.

Jean-Paul

 

[Dave Angel]

Shouldn't that be the other way?
if os.name ='nt':
DiskError =SError, WindowsError
else :
DiskError =SError

Doesn't matter. It's not needed anyway, since WindowsError is derived
from OSError. So just use OSError in the except clause.

DaveA

 

[Aahz]

This isn't necessary. WindowsError subclasses OSError.

Thanks! Much appreciated! (I haven't done much Windows programming in
the past -- and would have preferred to keep it that way. ;-)