[Python-Dev] Symbolic errno values in error messages

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-05-16 16:15, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>> Yannick Gingras <ygingras <at> ygingras.net> writes:
>>> 2) Where can I find the symbolic name in C?
>>
>> Use standard C library char* strerror(int errnum) function.   You can see
>> an example usage in Modules/posixmodule.c (posix_strerror).
> 
> I don't believe that would provide adequate Windows support.

Well, there's still the idea of a winerror module:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1505257

Perhaps someone can pick it up and turn it into a (generated) C
module ?!

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