the default value to be visible again. Trying to delete a default value
causes a ``KeyError``.
-* Trying to delete the ``DEFAULTSECT`` throws ``ValueError``.
+* Trying to delete the ``DEFAULTSECT`` raises ``ValueError``.
* There are two parser-level methods in the legacy API that hide the dictionary
interface and are incompatible:
single: UNC paths; and os.makedirs()
Recursive directory creation function. Like :func:`mkdir`, but makes all
- intermediate-level directories needed to contain the leaf directory. Throws
+ intermediate-level directories needed to contain the leaf directory. Raises
an :exc:`error` exception if the leaf directory already exists or cannot be
created. The default *mode* is ``0o777`` (octal). On some systems, *mode*
is ignored. Where it is used, the current umask value is first masked out.
will only need to be aware of the simple string values.
Note that the functions :func:`compilest`, :func:`expr`, and :func:`suite` may
-raise exceptions which are normally thrown by the parsing and compilation
+raise exceptions which are normally raised by the parsing and compilation
process. These include the built in exceptions :exc:`MemoryError`,
:exc:`OverflowError`, :exc:`SyntaxError`, and :exc:`SystemError`. In these
cases, these exceptions carry all the meaning normally associated with them.
Attempting to mix :class:`str` data with :class:`bytes` or
:class:`bytearray` in a single function call will result in a
-:exc:`TypeError` being thrown, while attempting to pass in non-ASCII
+:exc:`TypeError` being raised, while attempting to pass in non-ASCII
byte values will trigger :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError`.
To support easier conversion of result objects between :class:`str` and