Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: I don't think mimicking EBADF is very useful. Reading from a closed socket is usually a programming error, so it's not the kind of error you'll want to catch at runtime.
AttributeError may not be very pretty though, so perhaps a ValueError can be raised as with closed files: >>> f = open("LICENSE") >>> f.close() >>> f.read() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: I/O operation on closed file. ---------- type: behavior -> enhancement versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9177> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com