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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:31:42 -0700
> "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
>>
>> The EnvrionmentError hierarchy and common errno test code has bothered me
>> for a while.  While I think the namespace pollution concern is valid I would
>> suggest adding "Error" to the end of all of the names (your initial proposal
>> only says "Error" on the end of one of them) as that is consistent with the
>> bulk of the existing standard exceptions and warnings.  They are unlikely to
>> conflict with anything other than exceptions people have already defined
>> themselves in any existing code (which could likely be refactored out after
>> we officially define these).
> 
> The reason I haven't added "Error" to them is that the names are
> already quite long, and it's quite obvious that they refer to errors.
> I'm obviously not religious about it, though :)

Please keep the "Error" suffix on those exception class names. This is
common practice and we wouldn't want to break with it just because
the names get a little longer (we have editor type completion to
deal with that ;-).

Thanks,
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