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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-08-17 22:29:31 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-08-17 22:29:31 (GMT) |
commit | b32aa5ecef6c241d2415f2f5b90756f139e6e282 (patch) | |
tree | 47e503e3152643997ba930527c5521c931049a12 /Doc/lib | |
parent | 25699f99f413ee8d7b085ed77154d56282de0537 (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex index 98793a2..13ec88b 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ 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 |