[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

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[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6fdd29a9d5d4 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.5': Issue 27719: Remove a doc example that is not applicable in Python 3 https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6fdd29a9d5d4 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python trac

[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

Ben Hoyt added the comment: Removing that whole example sounds good to me, thanks. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

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[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Thanks for noticing this. It looks like this particular example is now pointless and should be removed. The subsequent examples do a much better job of showing typical practices. -- nosy: +rhettinger Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44075/ex

[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

Ben Hoyt added the comment: Okay, patch attached -- I think it's best to simply remove that sentence. Side note: this is why GitHub is so good -- click edit, remove the sentence, click create pull request (approx time 30 seconds). I've got a new machine since I last did Python development, so

[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

Berker Peksag added the comment: Thank you for your detailed report! Would you like to propose a patch? This behavior is already tested in testAttributes in Lib/test/test_exceptions.py so we just need a documentation patch. -- keywords: +easy nosy: +berker.peksag stage: -> needs patch

[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

Ben Hoyt added the comment: Note that I added the committers from issue 1692335 to the Nosy List -- probably overzealous and probably not the folks who maintain the docs, but oh well. :-) -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue27719] Misleading note about "args" attribute in "User-defined Exceptions" section of tutorial

New submission from Ben Hoyt: In the official tutorial in the "User-defined Exceptions" section (https://docs.python.org/3.5/tutorial/errors.html#user-defined-exceptions) there's a note about a user-defined Exception subclass as follows: "In this example, the default __init__() of Exception ha