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#6879 - fix misstatement about exceptions

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Ezio Melotti 2009-09-16 13:14:05 +00:00
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@ -218,11 +218,9 @@ exception to occur. For example::
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: HiThere
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.
The sole argument to :keyword:`raise` indicates the exception to be raised.
This must be either an exception instance or an exception class (a class that
derives from :class:`Exception`).
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