Raise X or Raise X()?

[bvdp]

Which is preferred in a raise: X or X()? I've seen both. In my specific case 
I'm dumping out of a deep loop:

try:
  for ...
    for ...
      for ...
        if match:
           raise StopInteration()
         else ...

except StopInteration:
   print "found it"
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