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authorAndrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>2012-12-18 21:16:44 (GMT)
committerAndrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>2012-12-18 21:16:44 (GMT)
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Mention OSError instead of IOError in the docs.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst
index cab2d7b..8043460 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/library.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ using curses, but curses is a fairly large module to learn.
try:
c = sys.stdin.read(1)
print("Got character", repr(c))
- except IOError:
+ except OSError:
pass
finally:
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSAFLUSH, oldterm)
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ using curses, but curses is a fairly large module to learn.
:func:`termios.tcsetattr` turns off stdin's echoing and disables canonical
mode. :func:`fcntl.fnctl` is used to obtain stdin's file descriptor flags
and modify them for non-blocking mode. Since reading stdin when it is empty
- results in an :exc:`IOError`, this error is caught and ignored.
+ results in an :exc:`OSError`, this error is caught and ignored.
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