Commit c5437b5e authored by Barry Warsaw's avatar Barry Warsaw

Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an

error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError.  The
docstring was incorrect but the implementation was fine.
parent ed1e10b1
......@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ Most existing code should continue to work with class based exceptions. Some
tricky uses of IOError may break, but the most common uses should work.
Here is a rundown of the class hierarchy. You can change this by editing this
file, but it isn't recommended. The class names described here are expected
to be found by the bltinmodule.c file. If you add classes here, you must
modify bltinmodule.c or the exceptions won't be available in the __builtin__
module, nor will they be accessible from C.
file, but it isn't recommended because the old string based exceptions won't
be kept in sync. The class names described here are expected to be found by
the bltinmodule.c file. If you add classes here, you must modify
bltinmodule.c or the exceptions won't be available in the __builtin__ module,
nor will they be accessible from C.
The classes with a `*' are new since Python 1.5. They are defined as tuples
containing the derived exceptions when string-based exceptions are used. If
......@@ -23,9 +24,9 @@ Exception.
Exception(*)
|
+-- SystemExit
+-- StandardError(*)
|
+-- SystemExit
+-- KeyboardInterrupt
+-- ImportError
+-- EnvironmentError(*)
......
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