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):

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