No more raising of string exceptions!
The next step of PEP 352 (for 2.6) causes raising a string exception to trigger
a TypeError. Trying to catch a string exception raises a DeprecationWarning.
References to string exceptions has been removed from the docs since they are
now just an error.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7dc2bc3..fd760aa 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and builtins
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+- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError. Attempting to
+ catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
+
- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created
a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic
classes still have the bug).