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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing <at> canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> 
> Really? Nobody else wants a convenient way to
> distinguish program bugs from exceptions caused
> by external factors?

Why do you want to derive program bugs from EnvironmentError ? Usually I derive
them from ValueError, RuntimeError or simply Exception.