[Python-ideas] PEP 3151: Reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Ivan Pozdeev <vano at mail.mipt.ru> wrote:
> Adding errno-specific subexceptions
> 1) makes some errnos privileged at the expense of others

Why is that a problem? Some errnos *are* more important than others -
they're the ones the regularly appear on the right hand side of "errno
== <some_errno>" checks.

> 2) introduces a list that isn't bound to any objective characteristic and is just an
> arbitrary "favorites" list

Why would you consider new classes that would be based on a survey of
the errnos that developers actually check for in published code to be
"arbitrary"?

> 3) adds types that characterize single errors rather than error
> classes which is an unnecessary level of complexity.

Any new IOError subclasses would likely still characterise classes of
errors rather than single errno values.

Cheers,
Nick.

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