[Python-Dev] urllib exception compatibility (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Sep 27 22:23:58 CEST 2007

On 9/27/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

How about making IOError, OSError and EnvironmentError all aliases for the same thing? The distinction is really worthless historical baggage.

+1 from me.

Should OSError and IOError become aliases to EnvironmentError? I assume WindowsError and VMSError will just directly subclass which ever exception sticks around.

And should we bother with a PendingDeprecationWarning for IOError or OSError? Or just have a Py3K warning for them and not worry about their removal in the 2.x series and just let 2to3 handle the transition?

-Brett

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