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SF patch #471852 (anonymous) notes that getattr(obj, name, default) masks any exception, not just AttributeError. Fix this.
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
date Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:31:32 +0000
parents 6f6f965c5e2d
children 379fc66f4c96
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/* PD implementation of strerror() for systems that don't have it.
   Author: Guido van Rossum, CWI Amsterdam, Oct. 1990, <guido@cwi.nl>. */

#include <stdio.h>

extern int sys_nerr;
extern char *sys_errlist[];

char *
strerror(int err)
{
	static char buf[20];
	if (err >= 0 && err < sys_nerr)
		return sys_errlist[err];
	sprintf(buf, "Unknown errno %d", err);
	return buf;
}

#ifdef macintosh
int sys_nerr = 0;
char *sys_errlist[1] = 0;
#endif