From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:19:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~984
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c046e97dc2aefc3213db668dc3ba5cf412407d1d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.
Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index 65b1dd8e0e38..b9a31cce9b18 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ also available on the instance's \member{args} attribute, as a tuple.
 
 \begin{excdesc}{StandardError}
 The base class for all built-in exceptions except
-\exception{SystemExit}.  \exception{StandardError} itself is derived
-from the root class
+\exception{StopIteration} and \exception{SystemExit}.
+\exception{StandardError} itself is derived from the root class
 \exception{Exception}.
 \end{excdesc}
 
@@ -295,7 +295,8 @@ For class exceptions, \function{str()} returns only the message.
   can be executed, and so that a debugger can execute a script without
   running the risk of losing control.  The \function{os._exit()} function
   can be used if it is absolutely positively necessary to exit
-  immediately (e.g., after a \function{fork()} in the child process).
+  immediately (for example, in the child process after a call to
+  \function{fork()}).
 \end{excdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{TypeError}