João Paulo Silva wrote: > >>> a = file("dir/foo") > >>> a.close() > >>> a.read() > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#28>", line 1, in -toplevel- > a.read() > ValueError: I/O operation on closed file > > Shoudn't this raise IOError? Seems more semantically correct to me.
IOError is, as the documentation says, used "when an I/O operation fails for an I/O related reason", while ValueError is used "when an argument has the right type but an inappropriate value." </F>
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