Incorrect error message

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <m%yx4.766$74.11996 at newsc.telia.net>,
Fredrik Lundh <effbot at telia.com> wrote:
>gerrit at nl.linux.org wrote:
>> >>> open('/tmp/abcde', 'e')
>> Traceback (innermost last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>> IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/tmp/abcde'
>
>in this case, the combination is a bit misleading, but
>there's no reasonable way to avoid this.

Is it less reasonable to produce a misleading error message or to
duplicate fopen's functionality using fdopen?

I suppose he who has time to complain has time to submit patches . . .
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