commit 8e37d5df95535081426f5e7fe450695f6dcfe676
author R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Sat Apr 13 14:49:48 2013 -0400
committer R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> Sat Apr 13 14:49:48 2013 -0400
tree 639ab44183299e0c6a0c9353f65be8e3b797f83d
parent c1d3daf58b8df00e680e91f0e568270ea8e85adb

#2118: Make SMTPException a subclass of IOError.

Initial patch by Ned Jackson Lovely.

Doc/library/smtplib.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
index 9593dea..04036dc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@
 
 .. exception:: SMTPException
 
-   The base exception class for all the other excpetions provided by this
-   module.
+   Subclass of :exc:`IOError` that is the base exception class for all
+   the other excpetions provided by this module.
 
 
 .. exception:: SMTPServerDisconnected