[Python-Dev] Documentation strategy for PEP 3151 (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Oct 12 16:24:59 CEST 2011

2011/10/12 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

Hello, I'd like some advice on what the best path is in cases such as: A :exc:socket.error is raised for errors from the call to :func:inetntop. Should I replace "socket.error" with "OSError" (knowing that the former is now an alias of the latter), or leave "socket.error" so that people have less surprises when running their code with a previous Python version?

I think you should say OSError but leave a historical note with a versionchanged on it.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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