WindowsError is not available on linux?

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.599.1258510702.2873.python-list at python.org>,
> 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.
>
> Here's what I told a co-worker to do yesterday:
>
> if os.name == 'nt':
>    DiskError = (OSError, WindowsError)
> else:
>    DiskError = WindowsError
>
> try:
>    disk_operation()
> except DiskError:
>    logit()
> --

Shouldn't that be the other way?
if os.name == 'nt':
    DiskError = OSError, WindowsError
else :
    DiskError = OSError


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