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Author gvanrossum
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, draghuram, facundobatista, gvanrossum, ianare
Date 2007-12-03.23:18:59
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You're right, my code was wrong. Yours will be be correct if you add
"else:" in front of the raise. I also still prefer "WindowsError is
not None" over just "WindowsError".

On Dec 3, 2007 2:25 PM, Raghuram Devarakonda <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Raghuram Devarakonda added the comment:
>
> > try:
> >   ....
> > except os.error, err:
> >   if WindowsError is not None or not isinstance(err, WindowsError):
> >     raise   # Pretend we didn't catch it
> >   pass   # Ignore it
>
> All the double negations are hurting when I try to understand above
> conditions. How about (in addition to the WindowsError name check):
>
> if WindowsError and isinstance(err, WindowsError):
>     pass # ignore
>
> raise
>
>
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