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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst index ebec952..d547ef7 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst @@ -221,10 +221,11 @@ 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 argument to :keyword:`raise` is an exception class or instance to be +raised. There is a deprecated alternate syntax that separates class and +constructor arguments; the above could be written as ``raise NameError, +'HiThere'``. Since it once was the only one available, the latter form is +prevalent in older code. 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 |