From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 03:04:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: A class used as an exception should inherit from Exception.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0a1~1087
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=756aa93763f30638605246070424798f2601b263;p=python

A class used as an exception should inherit from Exception.
(Should be backported to 2.6, really.)
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 9551982315..a74b97b4d0 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ def ispath(x):
 def cli():
     """Command-line interface (looks at sys.argv to decide what to do)."""
     import getopt
-    class BadUsage: pass
+    class BadUsage(Exception): pass
 
     # Scripts don't get the current directory in their path by default.
     scriptdir = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])