[Python-3000] Non-blocking I/O? (Draft PEP for New IO system)

[Adam Olsen]

On 3/6/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> The buffering layer could then raise IOError (or perhaps a special
> subclass of it) if the raw I/O layer ever returned one of these;

What's the rationale for IOError instead of ValueError?  Isn't it an
error in the application to apply the buffering layer to a
non-blocking socket, and not something related to a connection reset?

+1 on the rest

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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus