From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:15:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: raise more generic Exception() instead of RuntimeError() #5281
X-Git-Tag: v3.1a1~166
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b7851694e0bcfad81844021da0dead4d0948c651;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

raise more generic Exception() instead of RuntimeError() #5281
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 8797ece76a42..1e3cb8559bbf 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ You can create an exception and set your own traceback in one step using the
 :meth:`with_traceback` exception method (which returns the same exception
 instance, with its traceback set to its argument), like so::
 
-   raise RuntimeError("foo occurred").with_traceback(tracebackobj)
+   raise Exception("foo occurred").with_traceback(tracebackobj)
 
 .. index:: pair: exception; chaining
            __cause__ (exception attribute)