guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg mon apr 14 2008 659 pm greg ewing wrote guido van rossum wrote dont think eoferror environmental error quite different level error environmenterror typically means think depends expected eoferrors going caught surrounding code propagating far uncaught eoferror probably means file shorter expected counts environmental error way thinking thats kind parsing error environmenterror doesnt concern contents files current coding style involves wrapping except environmenterror around major operation reporting file could readwrittenwhatever kind message eoferror get missed would nuisance operations raise eoferror surely youre using raw_input really teaching guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 082158 0700 pythondev thoughts eoferror inherit environmenterror