From c99475e7a0b97ae736ed9ecf213727c952666ef0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 03:07:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] dump the string exception fallback for anydbm.error.

---
 Lib/anydbm.py | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/anydbm.py b/Lib/anydbm.py
index f051200548f..7c75ed173bb 100644
--- a/Lib/anydbm.py
+++ b/Lib/anydbm.py
@@ -42,11 +42,8 @@ only if it doesn't exist; and 'n' always creates a new database.
 
 """
 
-try:
-    class error(Exception):
-        pass
-except (NameError, TypeError):
-    error = "anydbm.error"
+class error(Exception):
+    pass
 
 _names = ['dbhash', 'gdbm', 'dbm', 'dumbdbm']
 _errors = [error]