WindowsError is not available on linux?

[Peng Yu]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Benjamin Kaplan
<benjamin.kaplan at case.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's not clear to me whether WindowsError is available on linux or
>> not, after I read the document. But I see WindowsError in shutil.py.
>> Could you somebody let me know what cause the following error?
>>
>>>>> try:
>> ...   raise WindowsError('WindowsError')
>> ... except WindowsError as e:
>> ...   print e
>> ...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "<stdin>", line 3, in <module>
>> NameError: name 'WindowsError' is not defined
>> --
>
> does this answer your question?
>
> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Oct 28 2009, 23:01:00)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import shutil
>>>> print shutil.WindowsError
> None

But the document doesn't say shutil need to be imported in order to
use WindowsError. Shall the document or the code be corrected?

http://docs.python.org/library/exceptions.html