From 2e85f503b1de28948ebcb3b13b2361f2d66521f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:14:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] #6879 - fix misstatement about exceptions
---
Doc/tutorial/errors.rst | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
index a0069f5f6f..1351957135 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
@@ -218,11 +218,9 @@ exception to occur. For example::
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: HiThere
-The argument to :keyword:`raise` is an exception class or instance to be
-raised. There is a deprecated alternate syntax that separates class and
-constructor arguments; the above could be written as ``raise NameError,
-'HiThere'``. Since it once was the only one available, the latter form is
-prevalent in older code.
+The sole argument to :keyword:`raise` indicates the exception to be raised.
+This must be either an exception instance or an exception class (a class that
+derives from :class:`Exception`).
If you need to determine whether an exception was raised but don't intend to
handle it, a simpler form of the :keyword:`raise` statement allows you to
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