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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-05-26 19:04:47 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-05-26 19:04:47 (GMT) |
| commit | e001816dff9e12785d4ddbd4f8912ebb099248a1 (patch) | |
| tree | ac148f3cdf08dc8239d4f07d025eb1e7369b1dc7 | |
| parent | 04f031d202543b4301715c6f28685acdcdbd4d1c (diff) | |
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Exception isn't the root of all exception classes anymore.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/api/exceptions.tex | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/api/exceptions.tex b/Doc/api/exceptions.tex index e1bfb38..504d1dc 100644 --- a/Doc/api/exceptions.tex +++ b/Doc/api/exceptions.tex @@ -336,8 +336,9 @@ for each thread. The \var{name} argument must be the name of the new exception, a C string of the form \code{module.class}. The \var{base} and \var{dict} arguments are normally \NULL. This creates a class - object derived from the root for all exceptions, the built-in name - \exception{Exception} (accessible in C as \cdata{PyExc_Exception}). + object derived from \exception{Exception} (accessible in C as + \cdata{PyExc_Exception}). + The \member{__module__} attribute of the new class is set to the first part (up to the last dot) of the \var{name} argument, and the class name is set to the last part (after the last dot). The |