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[Python-Dev] POSIX [Fuzziness in io module specs]

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Sat Sep 19 14:47:57 CEST 2009 
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 at 12:31, Pascal Chambon wrote:
> stream operations into IOErrors. Error codes are not the same as unix ones 
> indeed, but I don't know if it's really important (imo, most people just want 
> to know if the operation was successful, I don't know if many developers scan 
> error codes to act accordingly). For IOError types that really matter (eg.

Doesn't matter if it isn't very many, I think, just that it can be done.
But I suspect it is fairly common.  I know I have inspected OSError codes
(though I can't remember if I've done it for file operations).

--David
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