From 349a7f062e322ab5528f225769a4abc0ea13d95d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vivian Fang <vivian98.fang@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:40:41 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] changing OSError to be AttributeError (for windows)

---
 notebook/notebookapp.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notebook/notebookapp.py b/notebook/notebookapp.py
index 73270e710..96646cbe6 100644
--- a/notebook/notebookapp.py
+++ b/notebook/notebookapp.py
@@ -1113,8 +1113,8 @@ class NotebookApp(JupyterApp):
             if os.geteuid() == 0 and not self.allow_root:
                 self.log.critical("Running as root is forbidden. Use --allow-root to bypass.")
                 self.exit(1)
-        except OSError as e:
-            pass
+        except AttributeError as e:
+            pass #need to add Windows
 
         super(NotebookApp, self).start()