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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Apr 16 06:39:02 CEST 2008

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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.

You are unique in demanding this.

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.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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