Michael Foord wrote:
You said that having an exception hierarchy was impossible because the only information we have is the error number.
No, I said that having an exception hierarchy wouldn't help you to sort out the different meanings of a single error code. If you have some *other* way of sorting them out, then obviously you can represent them using different exceptions if you want. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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