From ee113f08f81640e651352a222d01895c5fd8535c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 01:14:57 +0000
Subject: add warning about exception messages

---
 Doc/ref/ref4.tex | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref4.tex b/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
index 6e893f1..00f3058 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref4.tex
@@ -197,5 +197,12 @@ selection of an exception handler, but is passed to the selected
 exception handler as additional information.  For class exceptions,
 this object must be an instance of the exception class being raised.
 
+\begin{notice}[warning]
+Messages to exceptions are not part of the Python API.  Their contents may
+change from one version of Python to the next without warning and should not
+be relied on by code which will run under multiple versions of the
+interpreter.
+\end{notice}
+
 See also the description of the \keyword{try} statement in section
 \ref{try} and \keyword{raise} statement in section \ref{raise}.
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