How to catch an exception while using a Python 'with' statement?

I have a code:

with open("myFile.txt") as foo:
    print foo.readlines()
else:
    print 'No such file or directory'

How to raise exception while using python ‘with’ statement?

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1 Answer

Manogna

Answered on 6th Dec, 2017

The code can be rewritten to catch the exception as follows:

try:
     with open("myFile.txt") as f:
          print(f.readlines())
except:
    print('No such file or directory')

We get the following output

C:/Users/TutorialsPoint1/~.py
No such file or directory

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