From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:09:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: raise a better error
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~2633
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21f25d3fcde75d26be878d27575241d36e0c9401;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

raise a better error
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diff --git a/Lib/optparse.py b/Lib/optparse.py
index 02f62e409505..16a0f1984539 100644
--- a/Lib/optparse.py
+++ b/Lib/optparse.py
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ class Option:
             parser.print_version()
             parser.exit()
         else:
-            raise RuntimeError, "unknown action %r" % self.action
+            raise ValueError("unknown action %r" % self.action)
 
         return 1