errno 22 instead of errno 2

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:04:30 -0200, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>  
escribió:
> 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
>
> Just glancing quickly at the svn logs, there certainly were some
> changes around that area in 2008:
>
> I'd question whether it's strictly a "regression", unintentional or
> otherwise, since I doubt the code makes any particular commitment as
> to which error code is raised, but I'd certainly be looking askance
> if I had code which relied on a particular error number which then
> changed!  Still, that's what unit tests are for, I suppose.

Even if nothing had changed on Python, one should note that the Windows  
API doesn't promise anything about the specific set of error codes a  
function might set (not that it happens every day, but MS has reserved the  
right to alter them).

PS: and thanks for my new word of the day: "askance"

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Gabriel Genellina