Feature Requests item #798520, was opened at 2003-09-01 14:34
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andrew Gaul (gaul)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.popen with invalid mode differs on Windows and POSIX
Initial Comment:
On Windows, os.popen with an invalid mode throw a
ValueError and on POSIX systems it throws an OSError.
Python 2.3 (#46, Jul 29 2003, 18:54:32) [MSC v.1200 32
bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import os
>>> os.popen('dir', '')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: popen() arg 2 must be 'r' or 'w'
Python 2.3 (#167, Sep 1 2003, 06:38:18)
[GCC 3.0.4] on linux2
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>>> import os
>>> os.popen('ls', '')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
Additionally, the ValueError message is incorrect; arg
2 can be 'r', 'rb', 'rt', 'w', 'wb', or 'wt'.
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>Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-06-05 19:26
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Should the exceptions be synchronized?
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