On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM, andrew.svetlov <python-check...@python.org>wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a6ea6f803017 > changeset: 80934:a6ea6f803017 > user: Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svet...@gmail.com> > date: Tue Dec 18 23:16:44 2012 +0200 > summary: > Mention OSError instead of IOError in the docs. > > files: > Doc/faq/library.rst | 4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst > --- a/Doc/faq/library.rst > +++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst > @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ > try: > c = sys.stdin.read(1) > print("Got character", repr(c)) > - except IOError: > + except OSError: > pass > finally: > termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSAFLUSH, oldterm) > @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ > :func:`termios.tcsetattr` turns off stdin's echoing and disables > canonical > mode. :func:`fcntl.fnctl` is used to obtain stdin's file descriptor > flags > and modify them for non-blocking mode. Since reading stdin when it is > empty > - results in an :exc:`IOError`, this error is caught and ignored. > + results in an :exc:`OSError`, this error is caught and ignored. > With any of these changes in the docs, please don't forget to include appropriate "versionchanged" directives. Many people using the Python 3 docs at "docs.python.org/3/" will still be on Python 3.2, and thus relying on the presence of such directives to let them know that while the various OS-related exception names are now just aliases for OSError in 3.3+, the distinctions still matter in 3.2. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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