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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-10-12 17:10:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-10-12 17:10:10 (GMT) |
| commit | 4272d6a315ba0281ccfd5d4c842c53111e9f4ae3 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e27db94e3d4da81566e19061ad4abb7bf23b243 /Doc/library/signal.rst | |
| parent | a787b650d4dc728674b7c490d5aa8a3d10903fdc (diff) | |
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Fix some mentions of IOError
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diff --git a/Doc/library/signal.rst b/Doc/library/signal.rst index 9bca72e..cbb9534 100644 --- a/Doc/library/signal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/signal.rst @@ -145,7 +145,11 @@ The :mod:`signal` module defines one exception: Raised to signal an error from the underlying :func:`setitimer` or :func:`getitimer` implementation. Expect this error if an invalid interval timer or a negative time is passed to :func:`setitimer`. - This error is a subtype of :exc:`IOError`. + This error is a subtype of :exc:`OSError`. + + .. versionadded:: 3.3 + This error used to be a subtype of :exc:`IOError`, which is now an + alias of :exc:`OSError`. The :mod:`signal` module defines the following functions: @@ -396,7 +400,7 @@ be sent, and the handler raises an exception. :: def handler(signum, frame): print('Signal handler called with signal', signum) - raise IOError("Couldn't open device!") + raise OSError("Couldn't open device!") # Set the signal handler and a 5-second alarm signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, handler) |