From e001816dff9e12785d4ddbd4f8912ebb099248a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:04:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Exception isn't the root of all exception classes anymore. --- Doc/api/exceptions.tex | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/api/exceptions.tex b/Doc/api/exceptions.tex index e1bfb3800b7..504d1dcd4e9 100644 --- a/Doc/api/exceptions.tex +++ b/Doc/api/exceptions.tex @@ -336,8 +336,9 @@ for each thread. The \var{name} argument must be the name of the new exception, a C string of the form \code{module.class}. The \var{base} and \var{dict} arguments are normally \NULL. This creates a class - object derived from the root for all exceptions, the built-in name - \exception{Exception} (accessible in C as \cdata{PyExc_Exception}). + object derived from \exception{Exception} (accessible in C as + \cdata{PyExc_Exception}). + The \member{__module__} attribute of the new class is set to the first part (up to the last dot) of the \var{name} argument, and the class name is set to the last part (after the last dot). The