Use the preferred form of raise statements in the docs.
diff --git a/Doc/library/rexec.rst b/Doc/library/rexec.rst
index 7736904..2ce612a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/rexec.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/rexec.rst
@@ -272,11 +272,11 @@
elif mode in ('w', 'wb', 'a', 'ab'):
# check filename : must begin with /tmp/
if file[:5]!='/tmp/':
- raise IOError, "can't write outside /tmp"
+ raise IOError("can't write outside /tmp")
elif (string.find(file, '/../') >= 0 or
file[:3] == '../' or file[-3:] == '/..'):
- raise IOError, "'..' in filename forbidden"
- else: raise IOError, "Illegal open() mode"
+ raise IOError("'..' in filename forbidden")
+ else: raise IOError("Illegal open() mode")
return open(file, mode, buf)
Notice that the above code will occasionally forbid a perfectly valid filename;