Michael Foord wrote:
Some of the error messages are truly awful though as things stand, especially for someone new to Python. Try to read from a file handle opened in read mode for example: IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Subdividing the IOError exception won't help with that, because all you have to go on when deciding which exception to raise is the error code returned by the OS. If the same error code results from a bunch of different things, there's not much Python can do to sort them out. The error messages produced for the various error codes could perhaps be improved, but that's an orthogonal issue. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
