Question

I’m writing a small parser class for a personal project. The class will essentially parse popular playlist files and return useful information.

Since the class will interact with files, I’m not sure about the best way to handle errors. I’m a Linux guy and generally do things in errno fashion but I’m wondering that whether exceptions are a better selection or not.

In short what’s the best way to handle these things in python world?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You want to use exceptions. And if you are using python 2.7, you want to use the with statement.

There is a good tutorial in the standard python documentation , but there are tons of other recources: wikibooks, dive into python, articles in blogs.