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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-07-23 19:19:39 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-07-23 19:19:39 (GMT) |
commit | c046e97dc2aefc3213db668dc3ba5cf412407d1d (patch) | |
tree | 21a9ea8c05034b338856ee377b3ad0706b18f783 /Doc/lib | |
parent | 63bc2e0fcbe4d76fe04dcb85780853bc4e2753a5 (diff) | |
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Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.
Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788.
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-rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libexcs.tex | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex index 65b1dd8..b9a31cc 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ also available on the instance's \member{args} attribute, as a tuple. \begin{excdesc}{StandardError} The base class for all built-in exceptions except -\exception{SystemExit}. \exception{StandardError} itself is derived -from the root class +\exception{StopIteration} and \exception{SystemExit}. +\exception{StandardError} itself is derived from the root class \exception{Exception}. \end{excdesc} @@ -295,7 +295,8 @@ For class exceptions, \function{str()} returns only the message. can be executed, and so that a debugger can execute a script without running the risk of losing control. The \function{os._exit()} function can be used if it is absolutely positively necessary to exit - immediately (e.g., after a \function{fork()} in the child process). + immediately (for example, in the child process after a call to + \function{fork()}). \end{excdesc} \begin{excdesc}{TypeError} |