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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Sep 28 01:41:57 CEST 2007

I suspect that the use case for those errors is far less than you think.

On 9/27/07, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:

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.

Wouldn't it also be nice to have some subclasses of IOError like FileNotFoundError, IOPermissionError and EOFError? Often that would be easier than having to use the errno attribute to find out the exact cause. -- mvh Björn

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