On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Eh, doesn't it bother anybody that it's not an error, but a user > action?
Nope, doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's an error number code, just like all the others. Several other error numbers may or may not be errors too, depending on context. Rather than quibbling about that part of the naming scheme it's easier to say that the call failing to complete successfully is an error by default, but an application may choose to interpret some cases as not really being errors, since there's a defined response (most obvious case: a file or directory already existing or not existing often isn't an error from the application's point of view, it's just the application ensuring that a particular configuration exists on the file system in an idempotent fashion). 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
