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bpo-19225: Remove duplicated description for standard warning categories #1068

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Remove duplicated description for standard warning categories
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Recover the missing sentence
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21 changes: 9 additions & 12 deletions Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
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Expand Up @@ -291,16 +291,11 @@ an error value).
is the function calling :c:func:`PyErr_WarnEx`, 2 is the function above that,
and so forth.

Warning categories must be subclasses of :c:data:`Warning`; the default warning
category is :c:data:`RuntimeWarning`. The standard Python warning categories are
available as global variables whose names are ``PyExc_`` followed by the Python
exception name. These have the type :c:type:`PyObject\*`; they are all class
objects. Their names are :c:data:`PyExc_Warning`, :c:data:`PyExc_UserWarning`,
:c:data:`PyExc_UnicodeWarning`, :c:data:`PyExc_DeprecationWarning`,
:c:data:`PyExc_SyntaxWarning`, :c:data:`PyExc_RuntimeWarning`, and
:c:data:`PyExc_FutureWarning`. :c:data:`PyExc_Warning` is a subclass of
:c:data:`PyExc_Exception`; the other warning categories are subclasses of
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Perhaps the last sentence should be kept here or added to the Standard Warning Categories section (if it already is not duplicated anywhere).

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The sentence at the bottom line seems to say the same meaning.

This is a base class for other standard warning categories.

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But is it documented that PyExc_Warning is a subclass of PyExc_Exception?

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No, it isn't. So, that sentence should be put somewhere around the paragraph or Standard Warning Categories section.
It seems suitable for that sentence to sit at the beginning of the paragraph, doesn't it?

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LGTM.

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I have updated the PR.

:c:data:`PyExc_Warning`.
Warning categories must be subclasses of :c:data:`PyExc_Warning`;
:c:data:`PyExc_Warning` is a subclass of :c:data:`PyExc_Exception`;
the default warning category is :c:data:`PyExc_RuntimeWarning`. The standard
Python warning categories are available as global variables whose names are
enumerated at :ref:`standarwarningcategories`.

For information about warning control, see the documentation for the
:mod:`warnings` module and the :option:`-W` option in the command line
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Only defined on Windows; protect code that uses this by testing that the
preprocessor macro ``MS_WINDOWS`` is defined.

Standard Warnings
=================
.. _standarwarningcategories:

Standard Warning Categories
===========================

All standard Python warning categories are available as global variables whose
names are ``PyExc_`` followed by the Python exception name. These have the type
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