From 35b345484dfb5377f8ca51e620db6b321972913b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:39:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] string exceptions are gone

---
 Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 457bef2b09e..f04f194376d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -3213,6 +3213,9 @@ that may require changes to your code:
   set ``__hash__ = None`` in their definitions to indicate
   the fact.
 
+* String exceptions have been removed.  Attempting to use them raises a
+  :exc:`TypeError`.
+
 * The :meth:`__init__` method of :class:`collections.deque`
   now clears any existing contents of the deque
   before adding elements from the iterable.  This change makes the