On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com> wrote: > Well, all the other functions raise OSError when the file descriptor is > invalid. IOError usually means that the IO itself failed. > I wonder if it is platform specific? Does it raise IOError on all platforms?
It certainly looks like it: here are lines 6632--6638 of posixmodule.c, in posix_ftruncate: Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS res = ftruncate(fd, length); Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS if (res < 0) { PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_IOError); return NULL; } Mark _______________________________________________ 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