Issue 1080713: os.ttyname() accepts wrong arguments (original) (raw)

Issue1080713

Created on 2004-12-07 16:32 by docwhat, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg23577 - (view)	Author: Christian Höltje (docwhat)	Date: 2004-12-07 16:32
Problem: The doc for os.ttyname says it accepts an fd What Happens: It raises a type error and says it expects an integer instead. Experimentally, it seems to accept fd.fileno() as input What should happen: It should an accept an fd (file object) I have attached a test case for this. The output I get using python 2.2 & 2.3 is: Documentation Sez: ------------------------------------------------------------ ttyname(fd) -> String Return the name of the terminal device connected to 'fd'. ------------------------------------------------------------ TTY Name (should work): exceptions.TypeError an integer is required TTY Name (shouldn't work): /dev/pts/2 Ciao!
msg23578 - (view)	Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) *	Date: 2004-12-28 20:42
Logged In: YES user_id=11375 No, file descriptors are small integers corresponding to a file opened by the current process. File descriptors are not the same as file objects; as you've discovered, you can get the file descriptor for a file object by calling the .fileno() method.