From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:54:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note change in behavior from 1.5.2.  The new argument to NameError is
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~188
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1fec57f45e06383af22dea4a8a4ca12a1ca9b09d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Note change in behavior from 1.5.2.  The new argument to NameError is
an error message and not just the missing name.

Closes SF Bug 599869.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index f4b1d154eea5..2ca631fbd8a7 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
 
 \begin{excdesc}{NameError}
   Raised when a local or global name is not found.  This applies only
-  to unqualified names.  The associated value is the name that could
-  not be found.
+  to unqualified names.  The associated value is an error message that
+  includes the name that could not be found.
 \end{excdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{NotImplementedError}