Is errno.ENOENT the right value?

[Erik Max Francis]

Mike Thompson wrote:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
> WindowsError: [Errno 3] The system cannot find the path specified:
> 'c:\\path/*.*'
> 
> My question is:  why does 'error.errno' have the value 3?  Given that
> the path
> does not exist, I had expect it to have the value errno.ENOENT (2), in
> which
> case no exception would have been raised?

I would guess it's because it's a WindowsError, not a OSError.  So that
3 is some Windows-specific value, not an errno value.

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