2011/10/12 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > > Hello, > > I'd like some advice on what the best path is in cases such as: > > A :exc:`socket.error` is raised for errors from the call > to :func:`inet_ntop`. > > Should I replace "socket.error" with "OSError" (knowing that the > former is now an alias of the latter), or leave "socket.error" so that > people have less surprises when running their code with a previous > Python version?
I think you should say OSError but leave a historical note with a versionchanged on it. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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