From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:58:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: byteswap() method:  Tell *what* exception gets raised when the type
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byteswap() method:  Tell *what* exception gets raised when the type
		    cannot be byteswapped.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libarray.tex b/Doc/lib/libarray.tex
index cfc9ceca518e..84b28128d074 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libarray.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libarray.tex
@@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ operations are applied to it.
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[array]{byteswap}{x}
 ``Byteswap'' all items of the array.  This is only supported for
-integer values.  It is useful when reading data from a file written
-on a machine with a different byte order.
+integer values; for other types of values, \exception{RuntimeError} is
+raised.  It is useful when reading data from a file written on a
+machine with a different byte order.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[array]{fromfile}{f, n}