bpo-37478: Specify possible exceptions for os.chdir() (pythonGH-14611)

swtaarrs · Jul 7, 2019 · 0717b4d · 0717b4d
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -1599,6 +1599,9 @@ features:
    This function can support :ref:`specifying a file descriptor <path_fd>`.  The
    descriptor must refer to an opened directory, not an open file.
 
+   This function can raise :exc:`OSError` subclasses such as
+   :exc:`FileNotFoundError`, :exc:`PermissionError`, and :exc:`NotADirectoryError`.
+
    .. versionadded:: 3.3
       Added support for specifying *path* as a file descriptor
       on some platforms.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-00-57-27.bpo-37478.B0ioLw.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-00-57-27.bpo-37478.B0ioLw.rst
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+Added possible exceptions to the description of os.chdir().