Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself

On 11Nov2024 18:24, dieter.maurer@online.de <dieter.maurer@online.de> wrote:

Loris Bennett wrote at 2024-11-11 15:05 +0100:

I have the following in my program:
   try:
       logging.config.fileConfig(args.config_file)
       config = configparser.ConfigParser()
       config.read(args.config_file)
       if args.verbose:
           print(f"Configuration file: {args.config_file}")
   except FileNotFoundError:
       print(f"Error: configuration file {args.config_file} not found.  Exiting.")

>
Do not replace full error information (including a traceback)
with your own reduced error message.
If you omit your "try ... except FileNotFoundError`
(or start the `except` clause with a `raise`), you
will learn where in the code the exception has been raised
and likely as well what was not found (Python is quite good
with such error details).

>
Actually, file-not-found is pretty well defined - the except action
itself is fine in that regard.