[Python-Dev] WindowsError repr (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Tue, 15 Aug 2000 07:33:03 +0200

mark wrote:

AGAIN - I stress - catching "OSError" or "os.error" will continue to work, as WindowsError derives from OSError. It just worries me that people will start explicitly catching "WindowsError", regardless of whatever documentation we might write on the subject.

Does anyone see this as a problem?

I've seen bigger problems -- but I think it's a problem.

any reason you cannot just use a plain OSError? is the extra "this is not a generic OSError" information bit actually used by anyone?