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Fix some issues found by Jacques Ducasse on the docs list.

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Georg Brandl 2010-03-21 09:02:59 +00:00
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@ -127,13 +127,12 @@ always available.
.. index:: object: traceback
If no exception is being handled anywhere on the stack, a tuple containing three
``None`` values is returned. Otherwise, the values returned are ``(type, value,
traceback)``. Their meaning is: *type* gets the exception type of the exception
being handled (a class object); *value* gets the exception parameter (its
:dfn:`associated value` or the second argument to :keyword:`raise`, which is
always a class instance if the exception type is a class object); *traceback*
gets a traceback object (see the Reference Manual) which encapsulates the call
If no exception is being handled anywhere on the stack, a tuple containing
three ``None`` values is returned. Otherwise, the values returned are
``(type, value, traceback)``. Their meaning is: *type* gets the type of the
exception being handled (a subclass of :exc:`BaseException`); *value* gets
the exception instance (an instance of the exception type); *traceback* gets
a traceback object (see the Reference Manual) which encapsulates the call
stack at the point where the exception originally occurred.
.. warning::
@ -508,9 +507,7 @@ always available.
more information.)
The meaning of the variables is the same as that of the return values from
:func:`exc_info` above. (Since there is only one interactive thread,
thread-safety is not a concern for these variables, unlike for ``exc_type``
etc.)
:func:`exc_info` above.
.. data:: maxsize