From abf079de2556578a4250c671ddbb83e7399b3e1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Dickinson Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:20:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Issue #20624: Exception docs wording tweak - clarify that it's okay to inherit from a subclass of Exception. --- Doc/library/exceptions.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst index 0642a13384d..45a6b1b5d5e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst @@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ handler or to report an error condition "just like" the situation in which the interpreter raises the same exception; but beware that there is nothing to prevent user code from raising an inappropriate error. -The built-in exception classes can be sub-classed to define new exceptions; -programmers are encouraged to at least derive new exceptions from the -:exc:`Exception` class and not :exc:`BaseException`. More information on -defining exceptions is available in the Python Tutorial under +The built-in exception classes can be subclassed to define new exceptions; +programmers are encouraged to derive new exceptions from the :exc:`Exception` +class or one of its subclasses, and not from :exc:`BaseException`. More +information on defining exceptions is available in the Python Tutorial under :ref:`tut-userexceptions`. When raising (or re-raising) an exception in an :keyword:`except` clause