[Python-Dev] IO module precisions and exception hierarchy (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Sep 29 07:20:13 CEST 2009


Michael Foord wrote:

You said that having an exception hierarchy was impossible because the only information we have is the error number.

No, I said that having an exception hierarchy wouldn't help you to sort out the different meanings of a single error code.

If you have some other way of sorting them out, then obviously you can represent them using different exceptions if you want.

-- Greg



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