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From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: FileNotFoundError thrown due to file name in file, rather than file itself
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:03:10 +0100
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 at 01:59, Loris Bennett via Python-list
> <python-list@python.org> wrote:
>> 2. In terms of generating a helpful error message, how should one
>>    distinguish between the config file not existing and the log file not
>>    existing?
>
> By looking at the exception's attributes rather than assuming and
> hard-coding the path in your message? Or, even better, just let the
> exception bubble.

I didn't consider letting the exception bubble as is the top of the
code for a CLI program.  I was hoping to just catch what I thought might
be a common error of the config file being missing.

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