Greg Ewing writes:
 > Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
 > 
 > > The selection of RuntimeError in this particular case seems
 > > somewhat random and ad-hoc,

Well, I guess we'd have to catch the person who wrote the code and
ask.

 > Maybe this is something that could be considered in the
 > exception hierarchy revamp proposal that was posted recently?

I think that's Antoine's PEP 3151.  Interestingly, he doesn't mention
EINVAL at all.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/

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