New submission from Kristján Valur Jónsson <krist...@ccpgames.com>:
I stumbled upon this. Of all the errors in the posixmodule.c, ftruncate alone raises an IOError upon failure. All the others raise OSError. This behaviour is not documented. However, the os module documentation says> Note All functions in this module raise OSError in the case of invalid or inaccessible file names and paths, or other arguments that have the correct type, but are not accepted by the operating system. This came to light when I added tests to verify that exceptions were being raised by invalid file descriptors. I propose to fix this to comply with the docs. ---------- components: Interpreter Core files: ftruncate.patch keywords: patch, patch messages: 79925 nosy: krisvale severity: normal status: open title: os.ftruncate raises IOError instead of OSError type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12759/ftruncate.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4957> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
