On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM, andrew.svetlov <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a6ea6f803017
changeset: 80934:a6ea6f803017
user: Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@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.