DIP33: A standard exception hierarchy

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-04-02 17:56, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:

> In my experience, most of the time, you don't even bother distinguishing
> between the finer categories.  If you can't open a file, well, that's
> that.  Tell the user why and ask them to try another file.  (I realise
> that this is highly arguable, of course.)

I would say that there's a big difference if a file exist or if you 
don't have permission to access it. Think of the command line, you can 
easily misspell a filename, or forget to use "sudo".

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/Jacob Carlborg