posix.error is a tuple, not an object or a string as docs say

[Ben Gertzfield]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael P Reilly <arcege at shore.net> writes:

    Michael> The long and short of this is that you can use it like a
    Michael> tuple if more than one argument was given, and as the
    Michael> object otherwise.

    Michael> For some of your own reassurance, print the type of
    Michael> "error" in the except clause.

Right, but my problem is that I can't use it as an object as the
documentation says..

Python 1.5.1 (#1, Dec 17 1998, 20:58:15)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import os
>>> try:
...     input = os.fdopen(42)
... except os.error, error:
...     print error.errno
...     print error.strerror
... 
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 4, in ?
AttributeError: errno

Yet the documentation says:

"When exceptions are classes, this exception carries two attributes,
errno and strerror. The first holds the value of the C errno variable,
and the latter holds the corresponding error message from strerror()."

So something else is a bit wacky, no?

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