Author: collin.winter
Date: Mon Sep 10 02:36:57 2007
New Revision: 58076
Modified:
python/branches/py3k/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
Log:
More two-argument raise cleanup in the tutorial.
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst (original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst Mon Sep 10 02:36:57 2007
@@ -221,10 +221,9 @@
File "<stdin>", 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
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