[Python-Dev] Add os.path.resolve to simplify the use of os.readlink

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> BTW Is there a better way than raise OSError(errno.ELOOP,
> os.strerror(errno.ELOOP), filename) to raise a correct OSError with
> errno, errno message and filename? A classmethod like
> "OSError.from_errno(errno, filename=None) -> proper subclass auf OSError
> with sterror() set" would reduce the burden for developers. PEP mentions
> the a similar idea at
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/#implementation but this was
> never implemented.

According to the C code, it should be working at least for recognised
errno values:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/009ac63759e9/Objects/exceptions.c#l890

I can't get it to trigger properly in my local build, though :(

Cheers,
Nick.

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