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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Sep 28 00:59:12 CEST 2007

I'd be happy to make them all IOError. 2to3 can clean this up.

On 9/27/07, Graham Horler <graham.horler at gmail.com> wrote:

On 27 Sep 2007, 21:23:58, Brett Cannon wrote: > 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?

Am I missing something, as I thought Py2K was supposed to throw backwards compatability to the wind in favor of doing the "Right Thing"? If so, can't we lose the proposed OSError and IOError aliases altogether, and just keep EnvironmentError? Perhaps "EnvironmentError" is a bit long to type in all the places OSError and IOError are used, I personally like the look of OSError and IOError better in my code. I vote for a shorter name for EnvironmentError, e.g. EMError. just my 2c, Graham > > -Brett _> ________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/graham.horler%40gmail.com

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