[Python-Dev] socket.error should be an IOError?

[Ka-Ping Yee]

In socketmodule, socket.error is currently just a plain old error
(derived only from Exception).  Looks to me like it should be an IOError.
Do you agree?

 line 2379 of socketmodule.c:

­­­­­­­d = PyModule_GetDict(m);
­­­­­­­PySocket_Error = PyErr_NewException("socket.error", NULL, NULL);
­­­­­­­if (PySocket_Error == NULL)

...just change that first NULL to PyExc_IOError.



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