From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:45:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document 1.5.2+ aspects of the NotANumber exception.  (Note that this
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Document 1.5.2+ aspects of the NotANumber exception.  (Note that this
is in the development branch, not the maintenance branch!)
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfpformat.tex b/Doc/lib/libfpformat.tex
index 94e434c2b9..c67d83468b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfpformat.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfpformat.tex
@@ -38,8 +38,11 @@ Return value is a string.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{NotANumber}
-Exception raised when a string does not look like a number when the 
-documentation says it should.
+Exception raised when a string passed to \function{fix()} or
+\function{sci()} as the \var{x} parameter does not look like a number.
+This is a subclass of \exception{ValueError} when the standard
+exceptions are strings.  The exception value is the improperly
+formatted string that caused the exception to be raised.
 \end{excdesc}
 
 Example: