tracks/python/exercises/point-mutations/README.md in trackler-2.2.1.74 vs tracks/python/exercises/point-mutations/README.md in trackler-2.2.1.75

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@@ -32,9 +32,24 @@ may assume that only sequences of equal length will be passed to your hamming distance function. **Note: This problem is deprecated, replaced by the one called `hamming`.** +## Exception messages + +Sometimes it is necessary to raise an exception. When you do this, you should include a meaningful error message to +indicate what the source of the error is. This makes your code more readable and helps significantly with debugging. Not +every exercise will require you to raise an exception, but for those that do, the tests will only pass if you include +a message. + +To raise a message with an exception, just write it as an argument to the exception type. For example, instead of +`raise Exception`, you shold write: + +```python +raise Exception("Meaningful message indicating the source of the error") +``` + + ## Submitting Exercises Note that, when trying to submit an exercise, make sure the solution is in the `exercism/python/<exerciseName>` directory. For example, if you're submitting `bob.py` for the Bob exercise, the submit command would be something like `exercism submit <path_to_exercism_dir>/python/bob/bob.py`.