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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-08-17 22:29:31 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-08-17 22:29:31 (GMT)
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Revise the comments about the exceptions module to not refer to source
code; it is not sufficiently readable now that it in written in C, and is less likely to be available to end users.
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Exceptions can be class objects or string objects. While
-traditionally, most exceptions have been string objects, in Python
+traditionally most exceptions have been string objects, in Python
1.5, all standard exceptions have been converted to class objects,
-and users are encouraged to do the same. The source code for those
-exceptions is present in the standard library module
-\module{exceptions}; this module never needs to be imported explicitly.
+and users are encouraged to do the same. The exceptions are defined
+in the module \module{exceptions}; this module never needs to be
+imported explicitly.
Two distinct string objects with the same value are considered different
exceptions. This is done to force programmers to use exception names