From 89fb03524842f88b1f1301148483b5050bbc9826 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 05:49:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] For PyErr_Format(), note that the exception parameter can be
 a string or class, but not an instance (since an instance will be created
 using the formatted message string as the constructor parameter).

---
 Doc/api/api.tex | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/api/api.tex b/Doc/api/api.tex
index d91f29b8fb0..87ac55cacf0 100644
--- a/Doc/api/api.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/api.tex
@@ -882,8 +882,8 @@ You need not increment its reference count.
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyErr_Format}{PyObject *exception,
                                            const char *format, \moreargs}
-This function sets the error indicator.
-\var{exception} should be a Python object.
+This function sets the error indicator.  \var{exception} should be a
+Python exception (string or class, not an instance).
 \var{fmt} should be a string, containing format codes, similar to 
 \cfunction{printf}. The \code{width.precision} before a format code
 is parsed, but the width part is ignored.