[Python-checkins] r83310 - peps/trunk/pep-3151.txt

Sat Jul 31 01:43:46 CEST 2010

Author: antoine.pitrou
Date: Sat Jul 31 01:43:45 2010
New Revision: 83310
Log:
Mention VMSError
Modified:
 peps/trunk/pep-3151.txt
Modified: peps/trunk/pep-3151.txt
==============================================================================

--- peps/trunk/pep-3151.txt	(original)
+++ peps/trunk/pep-3151.txt	Sat Jul 31 01:43:45 2010
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 +-- io.UnsupportedOperation (also inherits from ValueError)
 +-- socket.error
 +-- OSError
+ +-- VMSError
 +-- WindowsError
 +-- mmap.error
 +-- select.error
@@ -206,7 +207,7 @@
 
 * alias both socket.error and select.error to IOError
 * alias mmap.error to OSError
-* alias WindowsError to OSError
+* alias both WindowsError and VMSError to OSError
 * alias OSError to IOError
 * coalesce EnvironmentError into IOError
 
@@ -543,6 +544,14 @@
 Appendix B: Survey of raised OS and IO errors
 =============================================
 
+About VMSError
+--------------
+
+VMSError is completely unused by the interpreter core and the standard
+library. It was added as part of the OpenVMS patches submitted in 2002
+by Jean-François Piéronne [4]_; the motivation for including VMSError was that
+it could be raised by third-party packages.
+
 Interpreter core
 ----------------
 
@@ -797,6 +806,8 @@
 ``EnvironmentError``: `around 3000 results
 <http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=lang%3Apython%20EnvironmentError>`_
 
+.. [4] http://bugs.python.org/issue614055
+
 Copyright
 =========
 
