Open operation exception handler

#!/usr/bin/env python#  ww w  .  j  a va 2  s .c om

fname = 'abc.txt'
print

try:
    fobj = open(fname, 'r')
except IOError, e:
    print "*** file open error:", e
else:
    for eachLine in fobj:
        print eachLine,
    fobj.close()

import sys# from  w w w .  j  a  va  2s . c om

def open_file(file_name, mode):
    """Open a file."""
    try:
        the_file = open(file_name, mode)
    except(IOError), e:
        print "Unable to open the file", file_name, "Ending program.\n", e
        raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")
        sys.exit()
    else:
        return the_file

trivia_file = open_file("trivia.txt", "r")