[issue10452] Unhelpful diagnostic 'cannot find the path specified'

2010-11-18 Thread Raphael Mankin
New submission from Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk: Something somewhere in the library issues the diagnostic 'The system cannot find the path specified' with no indication of what path it was looking for nor where the error was detected. The relevant routine needs modification to print at

[issue10452] Unhelpful diagnostic 'cannot find the path specified'

2010-11-18 Thread Eric Smith
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: What code were you executing when this message was printed? What platform are you running on? What's the exact version of Python this happens with? (If you're running 2.6.x, what's x equal to?) -- nosy: +eric.smith

[issue10452] Unhelpful diagnostic 'cannot find the path specified'

2010-11-18 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue10452 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue10452] Unhelpful diagnostic 'cannot find the path specified'

2010-11-18 Thread Eric Smith
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: I ask about the specific version and platform because the string cannot find the path specified doesn't appear anywhere in release26-maint. And indeed cannot find the doesn't appear anywhere except comments. I'm going to close this issue,

[issue10452] Unhelpful diagnostic 'cannot find the path specified'

2010-11-18 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk added the comment: It's almost certainly coming straight back from the O/S, where Python is doing its usual thing of channelling an O/S error directly. Obviously we could special-case this or any other specific error; but we usually don't -- nosy: