Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:41:17 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit : >> Michael's response cut to the heart of the issue though - a richer IO >> exception hierarchy can make life interesting for compatibility purposes >> (especially when creating "file-like" interfaces to non-file objects). > > Well, not more interesting than currently where you need to replicate > errno numbers if you want to make the errors precise enough, since an API > consumer wanting to check specific error conditions will discriminate on > errno. > > If you don't want to go to that level of perfection, you just have to > raise a plain IOError (or OSError :-)) without bothering about errno or > subclasses; like you would do today.
Fair point. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
