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  r74825 | ezio.melotti | 2009-09-16 16:14:05 +0300 (Wed, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6879 - fix misstatement about exceptions
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
index ebec952..28d6565 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst
@@ -221,10 +221,9 @@ exception to occur. For example::
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    NameError: HiThere
 
-The first argument to :keyword:`raise` names the exception to be raised.  The
-optional second argument specifies the exception's argument.  Alternatively, the
-above could be written as ``raise NameError('HiThere')``.  Either form works
-fine, but there seems to be a growing stylistic preference for the latter.
+The sole argument to :keyword:`raise` indicates the exception to be raised.
+This must be either an exception instance or an exception class (a class that
+derives from :class:`Exception`).
 
 If you need to determine whether an exception was raised but don't intend to
 handle it, a simpler form of the :keyword:`raise` statement allows you to