I found myself writing the following code the other day:

        try:
            os.mkdir(path)
            
        except PermissionError:
            do_something()

        except FileExistsError:
            do_something_else()

        except FileNotFoundError:
            do_yet_another_thing()

        except OSError as e:
            import errno
            if e.errno == errno.ENOSPC:
                and_do_one_more_different_thing()

            else:
                raise e

The OSError subclasses in Python 3 are amazing, I love them.

I just wish there'd be more of them. :)

The PEP 3151 introduced "specialized" subclasses of OSError. Antoine Pitrou conducted a survey to decide which errors are common enough to merit a builtin exception:
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/#appendix-a-survey-of-common-errnos

ENOSPC is not mentionned in the PEP. According to 0002-Use-the-new-NoSpaceError.patch the error is rare: only used *once* in Python... and only in a very specific unit test (to workaround an issue on a specific buildbot...).

It looks like ENOSPC is available on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. It is part of the POSIX standad, ex:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/basedefs/errno.h.html

That said I am not against adding a new error for this, but I agree the need is probably rather rare (the error is rare in itself, and there's not much to do if you hit a disk space issue, usually).

I'm going to wait for other people to come with comments and possible use cases. In any case, thank you for submitting a patch, this is appreciated.

Shall we conclude from 7 years of no activity that there isn't much interest in this exception?