tests/readlink.py

commit: remove special handling of IOError (actually dead code)

In the past, IOError was used to mark a file as removed. The differentiation
between OSError and IOError in this place was introduced in e553a425751d, to
avoid that “normal” OSErrors / IOErrors accidentally mark files as removed.
This weird internal API was removed in 650b5b6e75ed. It seems like that
changeset should have removed the differentiation, at least I don’t see any
reason for keeping it.

On Python 3, OSError and IOError are aliased. Therefore the removed code was
actually dead.

#!/usr/bin/env python3


import errno
import os
import sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print(f, '->', os.readlink(f))
    except OSError as err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL:
            raise
        print(f, '->', f, 'not a symlink')

sys.exit(0)