From 2900ff93821743eef54d46e65b84c1afa497ef2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:14:57 +0000 Subject: Added paragraph explaining that except clauses can't be empty; that pass can be used if needed. By Dan Wolfe . --- Doc/tut/tut.tex | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex index c373733..f52ec61 100644 --- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex @@ -2751,6 +2751,10 @@ wildcard. Use this with extreme caution, since it is easy to mask a real programming error in this way! +Each exception clause must have at least one line of executable code +in the block. Comments are not executable code. If you want the +exception clause to do nothing, use the \keyword{pass} statement. + The \keyword{try} \ldots\ \keyword{except} statement has an optional \emph{else clause}, which must follow all except clauses. It is useful to place code that must be executed if the try clause does not -- cgit v0.12