From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:39:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: string exceptions are gone
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~2366
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35b345484dfb5377f8ca51e620db6b321972913b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

string exceptions are gone
---

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 457bef2b09e6..f04f194376dd 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -3213,6 +3213,9 @@ that may require changes to your code:
   set ``__hash__ = None`` in their definitions to indicate
   the fact.
 
+* String exceptions have been removed.  Attempting to use them raises a
+  :exc:`TypeError`.
+
 * The :meth:`__init__` method of :class:`collections.deque`
   now clears any existing contents of the deque
   before adding elements from the iterable.  This change makes the