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Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/faq/library.rst')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst index c8ef9e7199..8bd774bdce 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/library.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ 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) @@ -224,7 +224,11 @@ 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. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + *sys.stdin.read* used to raise :exc:`IOError`. Starting from Python 3.3 + :exc:`IOError` is alias for :exc:`OSError`. Threads |