[Python-Dev] thoughts on having EOFError inherit from EnvironmentError?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  > I don't think of EOFError as an environmental error... This is quite
>
>  > a different level of error than what EnvironmentError typically means
>
>  I think it depends. Any "expected" EOFErrors are going to be
>  caught by the surrounding code before propagating very far.
>  An *uncaught* EOFError probably means that a file was shorter
>  than you expected it to be, which counts as an environmental
>  error to my way of thinking.

No, that's some kind of parsing error. EnvironmentError doesn't
concern itself with the contents of files.

>  My current coding style involves wrapping an "except EnvironmentError"
>  around any major operation and reporting it as a "File could not be
>  read/written/whatever because..." kind of message. Having
>  EOFError get missed by that would be a nuisance.

But what operations raise EOFError? Surely you're not using
raw_input()? It's really only there for teaching.

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