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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-11-23 02:09:41 +0000
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-11-23 02:09:41 +0000
commit21f25d3fcde75d26be878d27575241d36e0c9401 (patch)
treed91b1c11b5f881b598fd6030d0ec685a7f2b3c45 /Lib/optparse.py
parentdc61901dd2b1bcb5467ebc36ef35a51106d9b103 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-21f25d3fcde75d26be878d27575241d36e0c9401.tar.gz
raise a better error
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/optparse.py b/Lib/optparse.py
index 02f62e4095..16a0f19845 100644
--- a/Lib/optparse.py
+++ b/Lib/optparse.py
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ class Option:
parser.print_version()
parser.exit()
else:
- raise RuntimeError, "unknown action %r" % self.action
+ raise ValueError("unknown action %r" % self.action)
return 1