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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-10-12 16:57:23 (GMT)
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Update doc for BlockingIOError and its alias in the io module
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.. exception:: BlockingIOError
- Error raised when blocking would occur on a non-blocking stream. It inherits
- :exc:`IOError`.
-
- In addition to those of :exc:`IOError`, :exc:`BlockingIOError` has one
- attribute:
-
- .. attribute:: characters_written
-
- An integer containing the number of characters written to the stream
- before it blocked.
+ This is a compatibility alias for the builtin :exc:`BlockingIOError`
+ exception.
.. exception:: UnsupportedOperation