On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:19:20 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> It's possible for input() to raise IOError, if I'm not mistaken; >> consider redirection, for instance. > > What indirection? Do you mean, if built-in input() has been monkey- > patched? Well, sure, but in that case it could do anything. I'm only > concerned with the builtins. Otherwise, I have no idea what you mean by > that. > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#input
I said redirection, not indirection, and I was thinking of OS-level changes. If input() is actually reading from some file/device, then any error that that could raise could come up from reading from stdin. Imagine if your script is running with input redirected from a file on a dodgy remote mount, and the far end goes down - at some point, you'll attempt to read and fail. I'm not sure that you'll see EOF then; by rights, you ought to see some other error. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
