[py-dev] py.test error with cygwin update

David Stanek dstanek at dstanek.com
Tue Jul 19 18:18:23 CEST 2005


> It seems that this is an error code that is not defined by
> Python's errno module. We should provide a default
> Error class like "UnknownErrno136" in case we can't discover
> it from the errorcode module.  I have just commited something
> along these lines.
>
> The error should propagate because it indicates a real problem.
> Once we have a proper error and know which os-level operation
> actually failed we should be further.  Can you 'svn up',
> reinstall and report about the error/traceback again?
>

Hello,

Is there a reason why you chose a dynamically created class instead of a
concrete UnknownErrno class? Or would it be useful to have a different
base class for UnknownErrno## classes so that they can be caught
separately?

-- David Stanek




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