[Python-Dev] POSIX [Fuzziness in io module specs]

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Pascal Chambon <chambon.pascal at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Actually, since Windows Error Codes concern any possible error (IO, file
> permissions, memory problems...), I thought the best would be to convert
> them to the most appropriate python standard exception, only defaulting to
> WindowsError (i.e, OSError's hierarchy) when no other exception type
> matches. So at the moment, I use a decorator to automatically convert all
> errors on stream operations into IOErrors. Error codes are not the same as
> unix ones indeed, but I don't know if it's really important (imo, most
> people just want to know if the operation was successful, I don't know if
> many developers scan error codes to act accordingly).
>

I don't often need to check the error code at runtime but seeing the
corresponding message is often critical for debugging.

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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
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