[Python-checkins] r68388 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

Thu Jan 8 04:39:47 CET 2009

Author: benjamin.peterson
Date: Thu Jan 8 04:39:46 2009
New Revision: 68388
Log:
string exceptions are gone
Modified:
 python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
==============================================================================

--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst	Thu Jan 8 04:39:46 2009
@@ -3213,6 +3213,9 @@
 set ``__hash__ = None`` in their definitions to indicate
 the fact.
 
+* String exceptions have been removed. Attempting to use them raises a
+ :exc:`TypeError`.
+
 * The :meth:`__init__` method of :class:`collections.deque`
 now clears any existing contents of the deque
 before adding elements from the iterable. This change makes the
