From: Ezio Melotti Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:14:05 +0000 (+0000) Subject: #6879 - fix misstatement about exceptions X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~530 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e85f503b1de28948ebcb3b13b2361f2d66521f5;p=python #6879 - fix misstatement about exceptions --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst index a0069f5f6f..1351957135 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst @@ -218,11 +218,9 @@ exception to occur. For example:: File "", 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