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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-02-16 16:15:34 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-02-16 16:15:34 (GMT)
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raise more generic Exception() instead of RuntimeError() #5281
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@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ You can create an exception and set your own traceback in one step using the
:meth:`with_traceback` exception method (which returns the same exception
instance, with its traceback set to its argument), like so::
- raise RuntimeError("foo occurred").with_traceback(tracebackobj)
+ raise Exception("foo occurred").with_traceback(tracebackobj)
.. index:: pair: exception; chaining
__cause__ (exception attribute)