https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e46fd7257a9329cf99d290b0ee50b3eb8290ee1d commit: e46fd7257a9329cf99d290b0ee50b3eb8290ee1d branch: 3.12 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: erlend-aasland <[email protected]> date: 2024-04-09T21:06:35Z summary:
[3.12] gh-117597: Clarify exception handling in the tutorial (GH-117681) (#117700) (cherry picked from commit a05068db0cb43337d20a936d919b9d88c35d9818) Co-authored-by: Nice Zombies <[email protected]> files: M Doc/tutorial/errors.rst diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst index 0b9acd00fdc6bd..981b14f5a4212b 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst @@ -119,9 +119,9 @@ may 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). +A class in an :keyword:`except` clause matches exceptions which are instances of the +class itself or one of its derived classes (but not the other way around --- an +*except clause* listing a derived class does not match instances of its base classes). For example, the following code will print B, C, D in that order:: class B(Exception): _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
