From 2682661cbc3806f8388f915a2e815b9d9642e487 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:19:59 +0000 Subject: #11317: fix wrong info about string exceptions. --- Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst index 3ed1313..e9ced0b 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst @@ -610,14 +610,10 @@ Notes: .. versionadded:: 2.5 -Deprecation of String Exceptions -================================ - -.. index:: single: BaseException (built-in exception) - -All exceptions built into Python or provided in the standard library are derived -from :exc:`BaseException`. +String Exceptions +================= -String exceptions are still supported in the interpreter to allow existing code -to run unmodified, but this will also change in a future release. +.. versionchanged:: 2.6 + All exceptions to be raised or caught must be derived from :exc:`BaseException`. + Trying to raise a string exception now raises :exc:`TypeError`. -- cgit v0.12