[Python-Dev] Incorrect documentation of the raw_input built-in function (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jan 29 00:08:04 CET 2008

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

I cannot find anything explicitly in favour of or against this in POSIX. The stuff quoted below is what I could find.

"3.105 Command Language Interpreter STDERR This section does not describe error messages that refer to incorrect operation of the utility.

What document did this come from? This sounds more like it's talking about what should be described in various sections of a man page, not what should be written to the various streams by a program.

Otherwise,

a message indicating that the utility had insufficient memory in which to operate would not be described.

sounds like an out-of-memory message shouldn't be written to stderr, which I'm fairly sure is not the case!

-- Greg

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