Neal Norwitz wrote: > On 6/18/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anthony Baxter wrote: >> >> I'd also like to get the new winerror module in before >> >> beta1 is released - documentation will follow next week: >> > >> > Hm. A new python module should be OK - but I was under the impression >> > that then large piles of the standard library would be updated to use >> > this new module. I'm less happy (much less) about this happening for >> > 2.5. >> >> I don't think that a lot of code currently uses the Windows >> error codes. If code does use the Windows error codes, then >> they usually hard-code the values in the module, so replacing >> those values with ones from winerror wouldn't cause breakage. >> winerror only contains mappings from error codes to error >> names and vice-versa. >> >> I agree, that it's a bit late in the 2.5 release process >> to add a new module. Perhaps it should wait until 2.6. > > That's a big part of the reason I'd like to wait. I think Martin had > something about it he didn't like. If the API isn't right, it's hard > to change. If we wait for 2.6, we can have more confidence the API > will be good and we won't have to rush anything.
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