From: Collin Winter Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:36:57 +0000 (+0000) Subject: More two-argument raise cleanup in the tutorial. X-Git-Tag: v3.0a2~407 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7526f5b3eaf8e2e4ad81ea479b85418a7f032f4;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git More two-argument raise cleanup in the tutorial. --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst index 8281c7f20f3d..706e2c0ddffc 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst @@ -221,10 +221,9 @@ exception to occur. For example:: File "", line 1, in ? NameError: HiThere -The first argument to :keyword:`raise` names the exception to be raised. The -optional second argument specifies the exception's argument. Alternatively, the -above could be written as ``raise NameError('HiThere')``. Either form works -fine, but there seems to be a growing stylistic preference for the latter. +The sole argument to :keyword:`raise` indicates the exception to be raised. +This must be either an exception instance or an exception class (a class that +derives from :class:`Exception`). If you need to determine whether an exception was raised but don't intend to handle it, a simpler form of the :keyword:`raise` statement allows you to