EAFP vs LBYL (was Re: A little disappointed so far)

[Alex Martelli]

Donn Cave wrote:
   ...
> It's a shame that IOError and OSError (and socket.error, etc.) were
> never integrated in some way.  I was going to suggest that you could

IOError and OSError subclass EnvironmentError.  socket.error doesn't,
I think, but I believe a patch (to _socket.c) to make it do so would
probably stand a good chance to be accepted -- it sounds good to me,
at least.


Alex