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diff --git a/Lib/fileinput.py b/Lib/fileinput.py
index dbbbb2192e..f9bb88a621 100644
--- a/Lib/fileinput.py
+++ b/Lib/fileinput.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ pertaining to the last line read; nextfile() has no effect.
All files are opened in text mode by default, you can override this by
setting the mode parameter to input() or FileInput.__init__().
-If an I/O error occurs during opening or reading a file, the IOError
+If an I/O error occurs during opening or reading a file, the OSError
exception is raised.
If sys.stdin is used more than once, the second and further use will
@@ -324,9 +324,11 @@ class FileInput:
if self._inplace:
self._backupfilename = (
self._filename + (self._backup or ".bak"))
- try: os.unlink(self._backupfilename)
- except os.error: pass
- # The next few lines may raise IOError
+ try:
+ os.unlink(self._backupfilename)
+ except OSError:
+ pass
+ # The next few lines may raise OSError
os.rename(self._filename, self._backupfilename)
self._file = open(self._backupfilename, self._mode)
try:
@@ -348,7 +350,7 @@ class FileInput:
self._savestdout = sys.stdout
sys.stdout = self._output
else:
- # This may raise IOError
+ # This may raise OSError
if self._openhook:
self._file = self._openhook(self._filename, self._mode)
else: