diff Doc/lib/libexcs.tex @ 25051:cbee2ed6cd75 legacy-trunk

Note change in behavior from 1.5.2. The new argument to NameError is an error message and not just the missing name. Closes SF Bug 599869.
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
date Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:53:23 +0000
parents 588d145c44dd
children 0337dad8403e
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--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex	Tue Aug 27 22:38:50 2002 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex	Tue Aug 27 23:53:23 2002 +0000
@@ -206,8 +206,8 @@
 
 \begin{excdesc}{NameError}
   Raised when a local or global name is not found.  This applies only
-  to unqualified names.  The associated value is the name that could
-  not be found.
+  to unqualified names.  The associated value is an error message that
+  includes the name that could not be found.
 \end{excdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{NotImplementedError}