Re: [matplotlib-devel] propagation of error messages in matplotlib

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:


    Jochen> Slight problem: it might now be a little bit more
    Jochen> difficult to include the name of the file which could not
    Jochen> be opened in the error message.  The IOError exception
    Jochen> will probably only have "permission denied" associated
    Jochen> with it.

Looks OK, at least on linux


>>> file('/sbin/ldconfig', 'w')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/sbin/ldconfig'