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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-17 17:42:00 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-17 17:42:00 (GMT)
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Added documentation for WindowsError; omission noted by Michal Bozon
<bozon@natur.cuni.cz>. (Mark Hammond, other Python/Windows cognoscenti: please check this!)
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@@ -314,6 +314,16 @@ For class exceptions, \function{str()} returns only the message.
\exception{IndexError}.
\end{excdesc}
+\begin{excdesc}{WindowsError}
+ Raised when a Windows-specific error occurs or when the error number
+ does not correspond to an \cdata{errno} value. The
+ \member{errno} and \member{strerror} values are created from the
+ return values of the \cfunction{GetLastError()} and
+ \cfunction{FormatMessage()} functions from the Windows Platform API.
+ This is a subclass of \exception{OSError}.
+\versionadded{1.6}
+\end{excdesc}
+
\begin{excdesc}{ZeroDivisionError}
Raised when the second argument of a division or modulo operation is
zero. The associated value is a string indicating the type of the