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Author terry.reedy
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, eckhardt, gvanrossum, loewis, methane, r37c, terry.reedy
Date 2010-08-05.00:36:49
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Message-id <1280968612.04.0.101339803543.issue1754@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The message is definitely an str (unicode) string. WinXP,3.1.2,

import os
try: os.rmdir('nonexist')
except Exception as e:
    print(repr(e.args[1]), '\n', repr(e.strerror), '\n', e.filename)
os.rmdir('nonexist')

# prints
'The system cannot find the file specified' 
 'The system cannot find the file specified' 
 nonexist
...
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'nonexist'
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Date User Action Args
2010-08-05 00:36:52terry.reedysetrecipients: + terry.reedy, gvanrossum, loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, r37c, eckhardt, methane
2010-08-05 00:36:52terry.reedysetmessageid: <1280968612.04.0.101339803543.issue1754@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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