[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #14127: Add ns= parameter to utime, futimes, and lutimes.

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 4 08:22:25 CEST 2012


Larry Hastings wrote:
> 
> On 05/03/2012 10:07 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 
>>>+    if (times && ns) {
>>>+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_RuntimeError,
>>>
>>Why not a ValueError or TypeError?
>>
> 
> Well it's certainly not a TypeError.

TypeError is not just for values of the wrong type,
it's also used for passing the wrong number of arguments
to a function and the like. So TypeError would be a
reasonable choice here, I think.

-- 
Greg


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