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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 |