bpo-12382: Make OpenDatabase() raise better exception messages by berkerpeksag · Pull Request #4528 · python/cpython

@berkerpeksag

Previously, 'msilib.OpenDatabase()' function raised a
cryptical exception message when it couldn't open or
create an MSI file. For example:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    _msi.MSIError: unknown error 6e

miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request

Nov 24, 2017
…nGH-4528)

Previously, 'msilib.OpenDatabase()' function raised a
cryptical exception message when it couldn't open or
create an MSI file. For example:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    _msi.MSIError: unknown error 6e
(cherry picked from commit 4864a61)

berkerpeksag pushed a commit that referenced this pull request

Nov 24, 2017
Previously, 'msilib.OpenDatabase()' function raised a
cryptical exception message when it couldn't open or
create an MSI file. For example:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    _msi.MSIError: unknown error 6e

(cherry picked from commit 4864a61)