From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 19:48:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Moved NotImplementedError into alphabetical order, and reword
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2b1~138
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d26f4b1883ea92ebe8060e9706223b74fcae317;p=python

Moved NotImplementedError into alphabetical order, and reword
description.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index 10b2245457..bf9ffae571 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -213,6 +213,13 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
   not be found.
 \end{excdesc}
 
+\begin{excdesc}{NotImplementedError}
+  \versionadded{1.5.2}
+  This exception is derived from \exception{RuntimeError}.  In user
+  defined base classes, abstract methods should raise this exception
+  when they require derived classes to override the method.
+\end{excdesc}
+
 \begin{excdesc}{OSError}
   \versionadded{1.5.2}
   %xref for os module
@@ -241,15 +248,6 @@ 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