On 25 September 2012 08:27, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25/09/2012 03:32, Mark Adam wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Oscar Benjamin
>> <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> try:
>>> f.pos = 256
>>> except IOError:
>>> print('Unseekable file')
>>
>>
> Something along these lines http://docs.python.org/dev/**
> whatsnew/3.3.html#pep-3151-**reworking-the-os-and-io-**exception-hierarchy<http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3.html#pep-3151-reworking-the-os-and-io-exception-hierarchy>?
I just tried to find out what error would be raised by seeking on a file
that doesn't support seeking and II think it's just OSError in the reworked
hierarchy. The error in Python 2.7 is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tmp.py", line 2, in <module>
sys.stdin.seek(5)
IOError: [Errno 29] Illegal seek
This corresponds to ESPIPE from errno.h which isn't referred to anywhere in
pip 3151:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/
So I guess it would still need to be
try:
f.pos = 256
except OSError as e:
if e.errno != 29:
raise
print('Unseekable file')
Oscar
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