Issue 751062: Tutorial: remove string exceptions, add parnassus, #posts (original) (raw)

This patch, agains latest CVS, changes three things in the tutorial:

The subsection "Exceptions Can Be Classes" is removed: Exceptions should be classes, and the described behaviour is also documented elsewhere: since string exceptions are deprecated, they should not be mentioned in the tutorial because new users will never use them and it is very improbable that they will ever encounter them.

The tutorial states that c.l.py receives "around 120 messages" a day. A note is added that there are peaks with up to several hundreds of postings (i.e. pep-308).

The tutorial mentions www.python.org and starship.python.net. I have added a link to parnassus, because every Python user should know about its existence.