On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:18:47 +1200
Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> > Why do you want to derive program bugs from EnvironmentError ? Usually I
> > derive
> > them from ValueError, RuntimeError or simply Exception.
>
> I'm *not* talking about program bugs, I'm talking about
> exceptions due to something the user did wrong.
>
> I like to be able to do this:
>
> try:
> f = open(somefile)
> mungulate(f)
> f.close()
> except EnvironmentError, e:
> big_nasty_alert("Couldn't mungulate: %s" % e)
It might help if you explain what sort of actual things that the user does
wrong that you are talking about. From where I'm sitting, the only thing I
can see that the user could do wrong is specify the wrong file. That doesn't
sound like an EnvironmentError to me, but I don't know that it should be a
ValueError or TypeError either.
--
Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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