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authorAndrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>2012-12-18 21:27:16 +0200
committerAndrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>2012-12-18 21:27:16 +0200
commita19195984922ce89e7695c93b3bb45c3e0e6d732 (patch)
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downloadcpython-git-a19195984922ce89e7695c93b3bb45c3e0e6d732.tar.gz
Issue #16714: use 'raise' exceptions, don't 'throw'.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ builtin open function is defined in this module.
At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class IOBase. It
defines the basic interface to a stream. Note, however, that there is no
separation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are
-allowed to throw an IOError if they do not support a given operation.
+allowed to raise an IOError if they do not support a given operation.
Extending IOBase is RawIOBase which deals simply with the reading and
writing of raw bytes to a stream. FileIO subclasses RawIOBase to provide