Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
The mention was already there in 1994 (2ec96140a36b), under the following form:
+\begin{excdesc}{RuntimeError}
+ Raised when an error is detected that doesn't fall in any of the
+ other categories. The associated value is a string indicating what
+ precisely went wrong. (This exception is a relic from a previous
+ version of the interpreter; it is not used any more except by some
+ extension modules that haven't been converted to define their own
+ exceptions yet.)
+\end{excdesc}
It was changed slightly from being "a relic" to "mostly a relic" in 1997
(238a8b6096e1):
\begin{excdesc}{RuntimeError}
Raised when an error is detected that doesn't fall in any of the
other categories. The associated value is a string indicating what
- precisely went wrong. (This exception is a relic from a previous
- version of the interpreter; it is not used any more except by some
- extension modules that haven't been converted to define their own
- exceptions yet.)
+ precisely went wrong. (This exception is mostly a relic from a
+ previous version of the interpreter; it is not used very much any
+ more.)
\end{excdesc}
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