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  #6879 - fix misstatement about exceptions
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@ -221,10 +221,9 @@ exception to occur. For example::
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: HiThere
The first argument to :keyword:`raise` names the exception to be raised. The
optional second argument specifies the exception's argument. Alternatively, the
above could be written as ``raise NameError('HiThere')``. Either form works
fine, but there seems to be a growing stylistic preference for the latter.
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