On 9/27/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about making IOError, OSError and EnvironmentError all aliases for > the same thing? The distinction is really worthless historical > baggage.
Wouldn't it also be nice to have some subclasses of IOError like FileNotFoundError, IOPermissionError and EOFError? Often that would be easier than having to use the errno attribute to find out the exact cause. -- mvh Björn _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com