Add code to DOMException to ensure it cannot be instantiated directly,
since the API documentation will state specifically that the specializations
must be used by the DOM implementations.
diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/__init__.py b/Lib/xml/dom/__init__.py
index abef398..b1211f4 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/__init__.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11
NOTATION_NODE = 12
+
#ExceptionCode
INDEX_SIZE_ERR = 1
DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR = 2
@@ -55,11 +56,17 @@
NAMESPACE_ERR = 14
INVALID_ACCESS_ERR = 15
+
class DOMException(Exception):
"""Abstract base class for DOM exceptions.
Exceptions with specific codes are specializations of this class."""
- pass
+ def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
+ if self.__class__ is DOMException:
+ raise RuntimeError(
+ "DOMException should not be instaniated directly")
+ apply(Exception.__init__, args, kw)
+
class IndexSizeErr(DOMException):
code = INDEX_SIZE_ERR