From: Fred Drake Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:14:57 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Added paragraph explaining that except clauses can't be empty; that X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~980 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2900ff93821743eef54d46e65b84c1afa497ef2b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Added paragraph explaining that except clauses can't be empty; that pass can be used if needed. By Dan Wolfe . --- diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex index c37373382492..f52ec61ee7db 100644 --- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex @@ -2751,6 +2751,10 @@ wildcard. Use this with extreme caution, since it is easy to mask a real programming error in this way! +Each exception clause must have at least one line of executable code +in the block. Comments are not executable code. If you want the +exception clause to do nothing, use the \keyword{pass} statement. + The \keyword{try} \ldots\ \keyword{except} statement has an optional \emph{else clause}, which must follow all except clauses. It is useful to place code that must be executed if the try clause does not