Chris Torek <nos...@torek.net> wrote: > (I have also never been sure whether something is going to raise > an IOError or an OSError for various OS-related read or write > operation failures -- such as exceeding a resource limit, for > instance -- so most places that do I/O operations on OS files, I > catch both. Still, it sure would be nice to have a static analysis > tool that could answer questions about potential exceptions. :-) )
There is an effort to fix this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/ And an implementation ... http://hg.python.org/features/pep-3151/ ... together with a feature request: http://bugs.python.org/issue12555 I think the whole concept makes a lot of sense and is really worth taking a look at. Stefan Krah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
