Slightly revised version of patch #1538956:
Replace UnicodeDecodeErrors raised during == and !=
compares of Unicode and other objects with a new
UnicodeWarning.
All other comparisons continue to raise exceptions.
Exceptions other than UnicodeDecodeErrors are also left
untouched.
diff --git a/Doc/api/exceptions.tex b/Doc/api/exceptions.tex
index cb75d50..057c1da 100644
--- a/Doc/api/exceptions.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/exceptions.tex
@@ -288,10 +288,11 @@
names are \samp{PyExc_} followed by the Python exception name.
These have the type \ctype{PyObject*}; they are all class objects.
Their names are \cdata{PyExc_Warning}, \cdata{PyExc_UserWarning},
- \cdata{PyExc_DeprecationWarning}, \cdata{PyExc_SyntaxWarning},
- \cdata{PyExc_RuntimeWarning}, and \cdata{PyExc_FutureWarning}.
- \cdata{PyExc_Warning} is a subclass of \cdata{PyExc_Exception}; the
- other warning categories are subclasses of \cdata{PyExc_Warning}.
+ \cdata{PyExc_UnicodeWarning}, \cdata{PyExc_DeprecationWarning},
+ \cdata{PyExc_SyntaxWarning}, \cdata{PyExc_RuntimeWarning}, and
+ \cdata{PyExc_FutureWarning}. \cdata{PyExc_Warning} is a subclass of
+ \cdata{PyExc_Exception}; the other warning categories are subclasses
+ of \cdata{PyExc_Warning}.
For information about warning control, see the documentation for the
\module{warnings} module and the \programopt{-W} option in the