Get error message from FTPLib

Wed Sep 23 14:55:43 EDT 2009

On Sep 23, 1:46 pm, Bakes <ba... at ymail.com> wrote:
> I am using ftplib for a project, using a try/except loop.
>> I would like to find out the exception, but I am a python newbie and
> do not know how.
>> How, in a try/except loop would I find the ftplib exception?

For a bit on exception handling in general, check out the section
within the Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html.
As far as the ftplib module goes, it has an attribute named
'all_errors.' It's a tuple that contains all of the Exception types
that ftplib.FTP methods will throw. You can do something like the
following:
try:
 FTP_instance.do_something()
except ftplib.all_errors, e:
 handle_an_error(e)
I do something much like that in an NMS-like application I wrote.
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Thanks,
Jeff
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