Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm curious about why Python lacks FileNotFoundError, > PermissionError and the like as subclasses of IOError.
Good question. Lack of effort/inertia? > Catching IOError and looking at errno to figure out what went > wrong seems pretty unpythonic, and I've often wished for built-in > subclasses of IOError. The py library does this (http://codespeak.net/py). > I sometimes subclass them myself, but a lot of the time, I'm > catching such exceptions as thrown by the standard library. Well, indeed. OTOH, functions like os.open aren't really *meant* to be pythonic. I don't think this is something I can get interested enough in to work on myself. Cheers, mwh -- <spiv> As far as I'm concerned, the meat pie is the ultimate unit of currency. -- from Twisted.Quotes _______________________________________________ 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
