Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: Note that one of the reasons for the slightly wishy-washy phrasing in the docs is to give other implementations a bit more freedom in the way way they handle these error cases.
Agreed that the main reason is the one Antoine gave though - the ValueError is looking at things from the point of view that the program passed in a closed file object when an open one was needed. ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7578> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
