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authorNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2002-06-04 17:14:07 (GMT)
committerNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2002-06-04 17:14:07 (GMT)
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Fix SF bug #557436, TclError is a str should be an Exception
Make Tkinter.TclError derive from Exception, it was a string.
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@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ Extension modules
Library
+- Stop using strings for exceptions. String objects used for exceptions
+ now derive from Exception. The objects changed were: Tkinter.TclError,
+ bdb.BdbQuit, macpath.norm_error, tabnanny.NannyNag, and xdrlib.Error.
+
- Constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE,
BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte
Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and