[New-bugs-announce] [issue15784] OSError.__str__() should distinguish between errno and winerror

[Richard Oudkerk]

New submission from Richard Oudkerk:

Since WindowsError became an alias of OSError, the error number shown in the stringification of an OSError err can either be a windows error code (err.winerror) or a posix style error number (err.errno), with no way to tell which.

For instance in

  >>> os.read(999, 0)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

err.errno == EBADF == 9 and err.winerror == None, but in

  >>> _winapi.ReadFile(999, 0)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  OSError: [Error 6] The handle is invalid

err.errno == EBADF == 9 and err.winerror == ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE == 6.  (winerror gets priority over errno if it exists.)

With the attached patch the second will be shown as

  >>> _winapi.ReadFile(999, 0)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  OSError: [WinError 6] The handle is invalid
            ^^^

Since this issue only applies to 3.3 and the patch is trivial, it would be nice to get this in before 3.3 is released.

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files: winerror.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 169153
nosy: pitrou, sbt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: OSError.__str__() should distinguish between errno and winerror
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27001/winerror.patch

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