@@ -744,55 +744,6 @@ object with the method :meth:`m`, and ``m.__func__`` is the function object
 corresponding to the method.
 
 
-.. _tut-exceptionclasses:
-
-Exceptions Are Classes Too
-==========================
-
-User-defined exceptions are identified by classes as well.  Using this mechanism
-it is possible to create extensible hierarchies of exceptions.
-
-There are two new valid (semantic) forms for the :keyword:`raise` statement::
-
-   raise Class
-
-   raise Instance
-
-In the first form, ``Class`` must be an instance of :class:`type` or of a
-class derived from it.  The first form is a shorthand for::
-
-   raise Class()
-
-A class in an :keyword:`except` clause is compatible with an exception if it is
-the same class or a base class thereof (but not the other way around --- an
-except clause listing a derived class is not compatible with a base class).  For
-example, the following code will print B, C, D in that order::
-
-   class B(Exception):
-       pass
-   class C(B):
-       pass
-   class D(C):
-       pass
-
-   for cls in [B, C, D]:
-       try:
-           raise cls()
-       except D:
-           print("D")
-       except C:
-           print("C")
-       except B:
-           print("B")
-
-Note that if the except clauses were reversed (with ``except B`` first), it
-would have printed B, B, B --- the first matching except clause is triggered.
-
-When an error message is printed for an unhandled exception, the exception's
-class name is printed, then a colon and a space, and finally the instance
-converted to a string using the built-in function :func:`str`.
-
-
 .. _tut-iterators:
 
 Iterators
 
@@ -120,6 +120,33 @@ name multiple exceptions as a parenthesized tuple, for example::
    ... except (RuntimeError, TypeError, NameError):
    ...     pass
 
+A class in an :keyword:`except` clause is compatible with an exception if it is
+the same class or a base class thereof (but not the other way around --- an
+except clause listing a derived class is not compatible with a base class).  For
+example, the following code will print B, C, D in that order::
+
+   class B(Exception):
+       pass
+
+   class C(B):
+       pass
+
+   class D(C):
+       pass
+
+   for cls in [B, C, D]:
+       try:
+           raise cls()
+       except D:
+           print("D")
+       except C:
+           print("C")
+       except B:
+           print("B")
+
+Note that if the except clauses were reversed (with ``except B`` first), it
+would have printed B, B, B --- the first matching except clause is triggered.
+
 The last except clause may omit the exception name(s), to serve as a wildcard.
 Use this with extreme caution, since it is easy to mask a real programming error
 in this way!  It can also be used to print an error message and then re-raise
@@ -219,7 +246,10 @@ exception to occur. For example::
 
 The sole argument to :keyword:`raise` indicates the exception to be raised.
 This must be either an exception instance or an exception class (a class that
-derives from :class:`Exception`).
+derives from :class:`Exception`).  If an exception class is passed, it will
+be implicitly instantiated by calling its constructor with no arguments::
+
+   raise ValueError  # shorthand for 'raise ValueError()'
 
 If you need to determine whether an exception was raised but don't intend to
 handle it, a simpler form of the :keyword:`raise` statement allows you to