errno 22 instead of errno 2

[Mark Hammond]

On 28/01/2009 6:52 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> open("c:\abc","rb")
>
> This simple one-line script, produces errno 22 on Python 2.6, but errno
> 2 on Python 2.5.2
>
> Is this an unintentional regression? Or is this an intentional bug fix?
>
> The file doesn't exist (errno 2) but I guess on Windows it is also
> somewhat an invalid file name (errno 22).
>
> Yes, I'm aware that \a is ASCII 007. Using a valid, non-existent file
> name produces errno 2 on both versions.
>

I think you will find that in Python 2.6, the exception object has both 
'errno' and 'winerror' attributes, which more accurately reflect the 
source of the 2 different error numbers, where Python 2.5 would often 
store the windows error number in the errno field, leading to what you see.

I tend to use something like "winerror = getattr(e, 'winerror', 
e.errno)" to handle both cases...

Cheers,

Mark