New submission from Hagen Fürstenau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: When trying to open a directory (on Linux), Python 2.x complained with
>>> open("local") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory Python 3.0 however gives the rather unhelpful or even wrong >>> open("local") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/MC/hagenf/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 284, in __new__ return open(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/MC/hagenf/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 223, in open closefd) IOError: [Errno 0] Error: 'local' ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 72033 nosy: hagen severity: normal status: open title: open() on directory raises IOError with unhelpful message type: behavior versions: Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3703> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com