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Thu Jul 22 15:30:24 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102202.html

On 10:33 am, solipsis at pitrou.net wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:50:00 +0900
>"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
>>
>>I think that's Antoine's PEP 3151.  Interestingly, he doesn't mention
>>EINVAL at all.
>>
>>http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/
>
>That's right. It is based on a survey of existing exception-catching
>code in the stdlib. There's only one match in the whole Lib/ subtree:
>
>$ grep -r EINVAL Lib/
>Lib/plat-sunos5/STROPTS.py:968:EINVAL = 22
>
>I guess EINVAL would most often indicate a programming error, which is
>why it doesn't get handled specifically in except clauses.

For setgroups it means you exceeded a platform-specific limit.  On 
Windows, for non-blocking connect, it means wait a little longer.

Jean-Paul

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