.. exception:: error
- The exception raised when an error occurs. The accompanying value is a pair
- containing the numeric error code from :c:data:`errno` and the corresponding
- string, as would be printed by the C function :c:func:`perror`.
+ A deprecated alias of :exc:`OSError`.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ Following :pep:`3151`, this class was made an alias of :exc:`OSError`.
.. function:: epoll(sizehint=-1)
Register a fd descriptor with the epoll object.
- .. note::
-
- Registering a file descriptor that's already registered raises an
- IOError -- contrary to :ref:`poll-objects`'s register.
-
.. method:: epoll.modify(fd, eventmask)