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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-01-05 04:00:03 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-01-05 04:00:03 (GMT)
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Do not mask the name of a built-in function in example code.
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@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ It is always available.
by a local variable in the same function or by the traceback from
being garbage collected. Since most functions don't need access to
the traceback, the best solution is to use something like
- \code{type, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]} to extract only the
+ \code{exctype, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]} to extract only the
exception type and value. If you do need the traceback, make sure
to delete it after use (best done with a \keyword{try}
... \keyword{finally} statement) or to call \function{exc_info()} in