From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:41:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: The sequence behavior is now on the Exception root class rather than
X-Git-Tag: v1.5a4~52
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6cd7ecb10be4a67a091904b25257f61f801b8968;p=python

The sequence behavior is now on the Exception root class rather than
on the StandardError class.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index e5dba34588..863c7e1f76 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -62,14 +62,15 @@ from this class.  All user-defined exceptions should also be derived
 from this class, but this is not (yet) enforced.  The \code{str()}
 function, when applied to an instance of this class (or most derived
 classes) returns the string value of the argument or arguments, or an
-empty string if no arguments were given to the constructor.
+empty string if no arguments were given to the constructor.  When used
+as a sequence, this accesses the arguments given to the constructor
+(handy for backward compatibility with old code).
 \end{excdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{StandardError}
 The base class for built-in exceptions.  All built-in exceptions are
 derived from this class, which is itself derived from the root class
-\code{Exception}.  For backward compatibility, when used as a
-sequence, this accesses the arguments given to the constructor.
+\code{Exception}.
 \end{excdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{ArithmeticError}
diff --git a/Doc/libexcs.tex b/Doc/libexcs.tex
index e5dba34588..863c7e1f76 100644
--- a/Doc/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/libexcs.tex
@@ -62,14 +62,15 @@ from this class.  All user-defined exceptions should also be derived
 from this class, but this is not (yet) enforced.  The \code{str()}
 function, when applied to an instance of this class (or most derived
 classes) returns the string value of the argument or arguments, or an
-empty string if no arguments were given to the constructor.
+empty string if no arguments were given to the constructor.  When used
+as a sequence, this accesses the arguments given to the constructor
+(handy for backward compatibility with old code).
 \end{excdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{StandardError}
 The base class for built-in exceptions.  All built-in exceptions are
 derived from this class, which is itself derived from the root class
-\code{Exception}.  For backward compatibility, when used as a
-sequence, this accesses the arguments given to the constructor.
+\code{Exception}.
 \end{excdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{ArithmeticError}