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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Apr 18 11:13:05 CEST 2008


Greg Ewing <greg.ewing canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

Really? Nobody else wants a convenient way to distinguish program bugs from exceptions caused by external factors?

Why do you want to derive program bugs from EnvironmentError ? Usually I derive them from ValueError, RuntimeError or simply Exception.



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