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diff --git a/docs/designdefense.rst b/docs/designdefense.rst index 1ed4f65a4..ee6d5a317 100644 --- a/docs/designdefense.rst +++ b/docs/designdefense.rst @@ -907,23 +907,22 @@ creating a more Zope3-like environment without much effort. .. _http_exception_hierarchy: -Pyramid Uses its Own HTTP Exception Class Hierarchy Rather Than ``webob.exc`` ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Pyramid uses its own HTTP exception class hierarchy rather than :mod:`webob.exc` +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .. versionadded:: 1.1 The HTTP exception classes defined in :mod:`pyramid.httpexceptions` are very -much like the ones defined in ``webob.exc`` -(e.g. :class:`~pyramid.httpexceptions.HTTPNotFound`, -:class:`~pyramid.httpexceptions.HTTPForbidden`, etc). They have the same -names and largely the same behavior and all have a very similar -implementation, but not the same identity. Here's why they have a separate -identity: +much like the ones defined in :mod:`webob.exc`, (e.g., +:class:`~pyramid.httpexceptions.HTTPNotFound` or +:class:`~pyramid.httpexceptions.HTTPForbidden`). They have the same names and +largely the same behavior, and all have a very similar implementation, but not +the same identity. Here's why they have a separate identity: - Making them separate allows the HTTP exception classes to subclass :class:`pyramid.response.Response`. This speeds up response generation - slightly due to the way the Pyramid router works. The same speedup could - be gained by monkeypatching ``webob.response.Response`` but it's usually + slightly due to the way the Pyramid router works. The same speedup could be + gained by monkeypatching :class:`webob.response.Response`, but it's usually the case that monkeypatching turns out to be evil and wrong. - Making them separate allows them to provide alternate ``__call__`` logic @@ -933,7 +932,7 @@ identity: value of ``RequestClass`` (:class:`pyramid.request.Request`). - Making them separate allows us freedom from having to think about backwards - compatibility code present in ``webob.exc`` having to do with Python 2.4, + compatibility code present in :mod:`webob.exc` having to do with Python 2.4, which we no longer support in Pyramid 1.1+. - We change the behavior of two classes @@ -944,9 +943,9 @@ identity: - Making them separate allows us to influence the docstrings of the exception classes to provide Pyramid-specific documentation. -- Making them separate allows us to silence a stupid deprecation warning - under Python 2.6 when the response objects are used as exceptions (related - to ``self.message``). +- Making them separate allows us to silence a stupid deprecation warning under + Python 2.6 when the response objects are used as exceptions (related to + ``self.message``). .. _simpler_traversal_model: |