[New-bugs-announce] [issue2158] confusing exception when opening a filename with nonprintable characters

[Geoffrey Irving]

New submission from Geoffrey Irving:

On Mac OS X with python 2.5.1, I get

>>> open(chr(212),'w')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IOError: invalid mode: w

The error should be more like "filename contains nonprintable characters."

Thanks,
Geoffrey

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components: Macintosh
messages: 62644
nosy: irving
severity: normal
status: open
title: confusing exception when opening a filename with nonprintable characters
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5

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