[Python-Dev] thoughts on having EOFError inherit from EnvironmentError? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 16 05:40:39 CEST 2008

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Often I raise EnvironmentErrors of my own to signal parsing errors. Well, that's your problem. That's not what EnvironmentErrors are for.

But it seems like it's what it should be for.

I'd be happy to use some other standard exception type if one existed at the right point in the hierarchy to catch what I want to catch, but there isn't one.

-- Greg

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