From 84bd5a7b354fdc3e0a2b11b90495dc953087722c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:10:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Backported Skip's update to revision 1.34

---
 Doc/ref/ref4.tex | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref4.tex b/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
index 76b1fd37a0b8..896920e253f6 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
@@ -211,5 +211,12 @@ selected exception handler as additional information.  For class
 exceptions, this object must be an instance of the exception class
 being raised.
 
+\begin{notice}[warning]
+Messages to exceptions are not part of the Python API.  Their contents may
+change from one version of Python to the next without warning and should not
+be relied on by code which will run under multiple versions of the
+interpreter.
+\end{notice}
+
 See also the description of the \keyword{try} statement in section
 \ref{try} and \keyword{raise} statement in section \ref{raise}.
-- 
2.47.3