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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-01-05 04:00:03 +0000
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-01-05 04:00:03 +0000
commit7731ed47cb9adc0351c393dad2d505eb5c08d712 (patch)
treeedfa6c553eb44d76312e2d29d8f1084eda651889
parent5e74d36f9dcbc54f59407417ee79cc128d55217c (diff)
downloadcpython-git-7731ed47cb9adc0351c393dad2d505eb5c08d712.tar.gz
Do not mask the name of a built-in function in example code.
Based on comment sent to python-docs.
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libsys.tex2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
index 32eac0b1ba..38bd28284c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ It is always available.
by a local variable in the same function or by the traceback from
being garbage collected. Since most functions don't need access to
the traceback, the best solution is to use something like
- \code{type, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]} to extract only the
+ \code{exctype, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]} to extract only the
exception type and value. If you do need the traceback, make sure
to delete it after use (best done with a \keyword{try}
... \keyword{finally} statement) or to call \function{exc_info()} in