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

[Greg Ewing]

Steven wrote:
> It might help if you explain what sort of actual things that the user does 
> wrong that you are talking about.

Usually it's some kind of parsing error. Or it might be a
network connection getting closed unexpectedly.

Essentially it's anything due to factors outside the
program's control, but which aren't detected and reported
by any of the built-in IOError or OSError exceptions.

-- 
Greg