[Python-checkins] r74825 - python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
ezio.melotti
python-checkins at python.org
Wed Sep 16 15:14:05 CEST 2009
Author: ezio.melotti
Date: Wed Sep 16 15:14:05 2009
New Revision: 74825
Log:
#6879 - fix misstatement about exceptions
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst Wed Sep 16 15:14:05 2009
@@ -218,11 +218,9 @@
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: HiThere
-The argument to :keyword:`raise` is an exception class or instance to be
-raised. There is a deprecated alternate syntax that separates class and
-constructor arguments; the above could be written as ``raise NameError,
-'HiThere'``. Since it once was the only one available, the latter form is
-prevalent in older code.
+The sole argument to :keyword:`raise` indicates the exception to be raised.
+This must be either an exception instance or an exception class (a class that
+derives from :class:`Exception`).
If you need to determine whether an exception was raised but don't intend to
handle it, a simpler form of the :keyword:`raise` statement allows you to
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