Yup, although it's a change in behavior that would need to be studied carefully for backwards incompatibilities. Usually it's given as a constant, so there won't be any problems; but there might be code that receives a mode string and attempts to test its validity by trying it and catching IOError, such code would have to be changed.
--Guido On 6/12/06, Kristján V. Jónsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I notice that file() throws an IOError when it detects an invalid mode > string. Wouldn't a ValueError be more appropriate? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
