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Raising a specific OSError

I know this should be obvious, but how does one raise a specific type of
OSError?
When I attempt to perform a file operation on a non-existent file, I get
an OSError: [Errno 2], but what if I want to raise one of those myself?

Thanks in advance,
-Dave

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Apr 21 '06 #1
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To raise a specific error, just find the error that you want to raise,
then give the error a text string to print: ex.

raise IOError("This raises an IO error")

On the stderr output, when the routine hits this line, you will get:
raise IOError("This raises an IOError") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
IOError: This raises an IOError


Just be sure of the error that you want to raise, since some of them
will do stuff like closing open file descriptors as well.

Apr 21 '06 #2
I do not see the point in doing so (why not just copy+paste that
string?), but the errno (specifically ENOENT) corresponds to the
POSIX.1 error number, and the string "No such file or directory" is
done in C via strerror(ENOENT); (check errno(3) and strerror(3)).

I doubt there is something that does this in the standard library
(just checked, there's an errno module, but it is quite sparse), but a
simple C extension would be trivial to write.

However, the best way is just to copy and paste that text into your
program, I mean, why not?

raise OSError("[Errno 2] No such file or directory")

On 4/21/06, David Hirschfield <da****@ilm.com> wrote:
I wasn't clear enough in my original post.

I know how to raise a basic OSError or IOError, but what if I want to raise
specifically an "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"?
Somehow it must be possible to raise the error with the correct information
to bring up the standard message, but where do I find the right values to
give?

Thanks,
-Dave

alisonken1 wrote:
To raise a specific error, just find the error that you want to raise,
then give the error a text string to print: ex.

raise IOError("This raises an IO error")

On the stderr output, when the routine hits this line, you will get:

raise IOError("This raises an IOError")

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
IOError: This raises an IOError
Just be sure of the error that you want to raise, since some of them
will do stuff like closing open file descriptors as well.


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Apr 22 '06 #3
Looking at the Python docs.. I found this:
http://docs.python.org/ext/errors.html

"""
Another useful function is PyErr_SetFromErrno(), which only takes an
exception argument and constructs the associated value by inspection
of the global variable errno. The most general function is
PyErr_SetObject(), which takes two object arguments, the exception and
its associated value. You don't need to Py_INCREF() the objects passed
to any of these functions.
"""

So, in a C extension, to raise a a specific OSError...

errno = ENOENT;
PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);

should work...

On 4/21/06, Kelvie Wong <ke****@ieee.org> wrote:
I do not see the point in doing so (why not just copy+paste that
string?), but the errno (specifically ENOENT) corresponds to the
POSIX.1 error number, and the string "No such file or directory" is
done in C via strerror(ENOENT); (check errno(3) and strerror(3)).

I doubt there is something that does this in the standard library
(just checked, there's an errno module, but it is quite sparse), but a
simple C extension would be trivial to write.

However, the best way is just to copy and paste that text into your
program, I mean, why not?

raise OSError("[Errno 2] No such file or directory")

On 4/21/06, David Hirschfield <da****@ilm.com> wrote:
I wasn't clear enough in my original post.

I know how to raise a basic OSError or IOError, but what if I want to raise
specifically an "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"?
Somehow it must be possible to raise the error with the correct information
to bring up the standard message, but where do I find the right values to
give?

Thanks,
-Dave

alisonken1 wrote:
To raise a specific error, just find the error that you want to raise,
then give the error a text string to print: ex.

raise IOError("This raises an IO error")

On the stderr output, when the routine hits this line, you will get:

raise IOError("This raises an IOError")

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
IOError: This raises an IOError
Just be sure of the error that you want to raise, since some of them
will do stuff like closing open file descriptors as well.


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Apr 22 '06 #4
In article <ma***************************************@python. org>,
David Hirschfield <da****@ilm.com> wrote:
When I attempt to perform a file operation on a non-existent file, I get
an OSError: [Errno 2], but what if I want to raise one of those myself?


raise OSError(2, "No such file or directory")
Apr 22 '06 #5

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