diff options
author | Collin Winter <collinw@gmail.com> | 2007-09-10 00:27:23 (GMT) |
---|---|---|
committer | Collin Winter <collinw@gmail.com> | 2007-09-10 00:27:23 (GMT) |
commit | bbc9712629c91ba78ffa26531f82e2730acbf395 (patch) | |
tree | 0e44d38258dfeff9ccf02b6a841bc9200f957e61 /Doc/tutorial/classes.rst | |
parent | 0ec3477989484943a230e46aaea60cb20c9ef89f (diff) | |
download | cpython-bbc9712629c91ba78ffa26531f82e2730acbf395.zip cpython-bbc9712629c91ba78ffa26531f82e2730acbf395.tar.gz cpython-bbc9712629c91ba78ffa26531f82e2730acbf395.tar.bz2 |
Update tutorial/classes.rst to remove references to the old two-argument form of the raise statement.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/tutorial/classes.rst')
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/classes.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 93e77cc..696860d 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -586,16 +586,16 @@ Exceptions Are Classes Too User-defined exceptions are identified by classes as well. Using this mechanism it is possible to create extensible hierarchies of exceptions. -There are two new valid (semantic) forms for the raise statement:: +There are two valid (semantic) forms for the raise statement:: - raise Class, instance + raise Class - raise instance + raise Instance -In the first form, ``instance`` must be an instance of :class:`Class` or of a -class derived from it. The second form is a shorthand for:: +In the first form, ``Class`` must be an instance of :class:`type` or of a +class derived from it. The first form is a shorthand for:: - raise instance.__class__, instance + raise Class() A class in an except clause is compatible with an exception if it is the same class or a base class thereof (but not the other way around --- an except clause |