From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 19:19:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added documentation for NotImplementedError.  Fred (I'm sure) will
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2b1~139
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1e151322fbd0c3a25fb7e23af9a46e0dc09d6b78;p=python

Added documentation for NotImplementedError.  Fred (I'm sure) will
sanitize for your protection :-)
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index ff5ef2259d..10b2245457 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -241,6 +241,15 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
   more.)
 \end{excdesc}
 
+\begin{excdesc}{NotImplementedError}
+  \versionadded{1.5.2}
+  This exception is derived from \exception{RuntimeError}.  Its
+  purpose is to provide a standard exception to be used when modeling
+  abstract class methods.  Abstract base class methods should raise
+  this exception when they expect derived classes to override the
+  method.
+\end{excdesc}
+
 \begin{excdesc}{SyntaxError}
 % XXXJH xref to these functions?
   Raised when the parser encounters a syntax error.  This may occur in