Since I started learning Python and hopefully take also a certification, I am trying to do some hands-on.
Nothing too complicated, just some basic exercises, for the moment. Here is one of them.
They want to though you to open the and file and read from it like:
from sys import argv
script, filename = argv
txt = open(filename)
print(f"Here is your file: {filename}")
print(txt.read())But there is a thing not to be ignored, and that is exception handling.
from sys import argv
try:
script, filename = argv
txt = open(filename)
print(f"Here is your file: {filename}")
print(txt.read())
except ValueError as e:
if "not enough" in e.__str__():
print("not enough arguments given")
else:
print("too many arguments given")
except FileNotFoundError:
print("file given, not found")And since you can’t really discern between ValueError messages, or at least I don’t know how to do that more elegant, yet, we have a workaround.
There is also a FileNotFoundError which shouldn’t be left unchecked, and if I missed something, leave a comment.
P.S: I know there is also the possibility for the file not to have reading permissions. That demonstrates that for three lines of code you need to threat even more exceptional cases.
Cheers!