[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r83763 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/signal.rst Lib/test/test_signal.py Misc/NEWS Modules/signalmodule.c

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Aug 7 12:09:16 CEST 2010


Hirokazu Yamamoto wrote:

> #define SIG(name) if (sig_num != SIG##name)
>     SIG(ABRT) SIG(FPE) SIG(ILL) SIG(INT) SIG(SEGV) SIG(TERM) {
>          PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "signal number out of range");

"Out of range" doesn't seem like quite the right message here,
because it suggests a contiguous range of legal values, which
isn't the case.

-- 
Greg


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