On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2009/4/2 Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarne...@gmail.com>: >> Apologies if this has already been discussed. > > I don't believe it has ever been discussed to be implemented. > >> Apparently no one has bothered yet to turn OSError + errno into a hierarchy >> of OSError subclasses, as it should. What's the problem, no will to do it, >> or no manpower? > > Python doesn't need any more builtin exceptions to clutter the > namespace. Besides, what's wrong with just checking the errno?
The problem is manpower (this has been no ones itch). In order to have a hierarchy of OSError exceptions the underlying code would have to raise them. That means diving into all the C code that raises OSError and cleaning them up. I'm +1 on the idea but -1 on doing the work myself. -Jack _______________________________________________ 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
