Daniel Stutzbach <dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> added the comment:
Is it even possible to portably test the validity of a file descriptor without trying to write/read it? When I first saw this bug, my gut feeling was "well, don't do that then!" However, I then recalled that Windows GUI applications have no stdin, stdout, or stderr. Python 2 will raise IOError: Bad File Descriptor when the user tries to write to stdout or stderr (more accurately, it raises the exception when trying to flush data to the file descriptor). I just tested pythonw.exe. If I set sys.stderr by hand to a file, then write to sys.stdout, 2.6 will correctly write the exception to the file. 3.1 exits silently. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7111> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
