On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:38 PM, ezio.melotti <[email protected]> wrote: > -.. [#] The exception is propagated to the invocation stack only if there is > no > - :keyword:`finally` clause that negates the exception. > +.. [#] The exception is propagated to the invocation stack unless > + there is a :keyword:`finally` clause which happens to raise another > + exception. That new exception causes the old one to be lost.
I believe the footnote was talking about this case: >>> def f(): ... try: ... raise Exception() ... finally: ... return "What exception?" ... >>> f() 'What exception?' The new wording doesn't accurately reflect that. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
