On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Error codes under DEC VAX/VMS used odd integers for > "success/information" and even integers for "warning/error" (been too > many years, I think positive integers were success/warning, negative > integers were information/error; I could also be wrong on which set were > even... if 0 were no-info/success then odd were errors and even were > success)).
Sounds like IBM DB2 and sqlca.sqlcode - 0 for success, <0 for error, >0 for warning (or in some cases "status" - an SQLCODE of 100 means "end of result set", which isn't exactly an error but you can't fetch any more from it; it's akin to Python raising StopIteration to terminate a for loop). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
