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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-10-06 06:10:54 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-10-06 06:10:54 (GMT)
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Update the documentation to reflect the changes to ReferenceError.
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-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libexcs.tex11
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libweakref.tex3
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index 5571086..08defcc 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -237,6 +237,17 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
typical applications prefer to drop bits than raise an exception.
\end{excdesc}
+\begin{excdesc}{ReferenceError}
+ This exception is raised when a weak reference proxy, created by the
+ \function{\refmodule{weakref}.proxy()} function, is used to access
+ an attribute of the referent after it has been garbage collected.
+ For more information on weak references, see the \refmodule{weakref}
+ module.
+ \versionadded[Previously known as the
+ \exception{\refmodule{weakref}.ReferenceError}
+ exception]{2.2}
+\end{excdesc}
+
\begin{excdesc}{RuntimeError}
Raised when an error is detected that doesn't fall in any of the
other categories. The associated value is a string indicating what
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libweakref.tex b/Doc/lib/libweakref.tex
index f5887b5..d88b051 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libweakref.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libweakref.tex
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ be made to support weak references; see section \ref{weakref-extension},
\begin{excdesc}{ReferenceError}
Exception raised when a proxy object is used but the underlying
- object has been collected.
+ object has been collected. This is the same as the standard
+ \exception{ReferenceError} exception.
\end{excdesc}