Sandro Tosi <sandro.t...@gmail.com> added the comment:

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 00:12, R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:
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> Well, you could consider codecs an example in the stdlib of using it, and the 
> doc could be changed to something like "stdlib modules that look up 
> information in specialized data sources may raise this error directly".  
> Whether this is a good idea or not, I'm not sure, but it feels more logical 
> than ValueError.

Sure, I was just showing my line of reasoning :) I'm ok either way: if
you feel LookupError is best, I'll change shutil.chown() code and also
the doc for LE (about that, is it ok a single patch or 2 separate?)

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