[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #14127: Add ns= parameter to utime, futimes, and lutimes. (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 4 08:22:25 CEST 2012


Larry Hastings wrote:

On 05/03/2012 10:07 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

+ if (times && ns) { + PyErrFormat(PyExcRuntimeError,

Why not a ValueError or TypeError? Well it's certainly not a TypeError.

TypeError is not just for values of the wrong type, it's also used for passing the wrong number of arguments to a function and the like. So TypeError would be a reasonable choice here, I think.

-- Greg



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