> So far we've hit OSError, IOError, AttributeError and I think one or two 
> others.  Needless to say, I am not amused.

Out of curiosity, what were the others?  I was under the impression that
EnvironmentError would catch OSError and IOError, but I don't know what
else is going wrong.

> As such, instead of continuing to find out (the hard way) all the 
> possible failure cases for this apparently horribly buggy library 
> function, I'd prefer to simply catch any exception and fallback.

Ok.  I'm just asking if there's a chance we'll surpress a legtimiate
error.  If it's the case that any negative result out of this function
means we should just use something else, then it's not really a problem.

> I'm just tired of having to workaround this function.

I hope you'll forgive me for asking, but why not remove it completely
then?

-j

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