From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:42:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added documentation for WindowsError; omission noted by Michal Bozon
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~2021
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cebda6f5f0b87a4b7b347e3aab33aaffba09a1ad;p=python

Added documentation for WindowsError; omission noted by Michal Bozon
<bozon@natur.cuni.cz>.

(Mark Hammond, other Python/Windows cognoscenti: please check this!)
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index fd1d21acee..4d5ab853f5 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -314,6 +314,16 @@ For class exceptions, \function{str()} returns only the message.
   \exception{IndexError}.
 \end{excdesc}
 
+\begin{excdesc}{WindowsError}
+  Raised when a Windows-specific error occurs or when the error number
+  does not correspond to an \cdata{errno} value.  The
+  \member{errno} and \member{strerror} values are created from the
+  return values of the \cfunction{GetLastError()} and
+  \cfunction{FormatMessage()} functions from the Windows Platform API.
+  This is a subclass of \exception{OSError}.
+\versionadded{1.6}
+\end{excdesc}
+
 \begin{excdesc}{ZeroDivisionError}
   Raised when the second argument of a division or modulo operation is
   zero.  The associated value is a string indicating the type of the