Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > 1) IOError and ValueError are not subclasses one of another. So what > should we expect an IOBase implementation to raise?
Ideally, ValueError should be raised, but I suspect some methods raise IOError instead. > Undefined behavior means literally anything can happen. In practice, it will either raise an error, or be ignored. For example, calling close() a second time would be ignored. Calling readable() may return the original value (before the file was closed), etc. Any non-trivial behaviour should be reported as a bug, though. Especially, reading or writing methods (read(), write(), readline() etc.) should *never* succeed on a closed file. ---------- components: +IO nosy: +pitrou stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15840> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com