From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 04:30:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add documentation for the StopIteration exception.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~1926
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9cfe1824c2cf2eb3592e13d1f3ac140cd0279cdf;p=python

Add documentation for the StopIteration exception.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index 30b4ef5164..eb043fcaba 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -237,6 +237,14 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
   more.)
 \end{excdesc}
 
+\begin{excdesc}{StopIteration}
+  Raised by an iterator's \method{next()} method to signal that there
+  are no further values.
+  This is derived from \exception{Exception} rather than
+  \exception{StandardError}, since this is not considered an error in
+  its normal application.
+\end{excdesc}
+
 \begin{excdesc}{SyntaxError}
 % XXXJH xref to these functions?
   Raised when the parser encounters a syntax error.  This may occur in