New submission from Alistsair Lenhard <alistair.lenhard@googlemail.com>: under: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/errors.html Original it says: "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." It should read: "Note that if the except clauses were reversed (with except B first), it would have printed D, D, D — the first matching except clause is triggered." As D is the first expression in the print statement. So if the expression is changed to "except B:" class B(Exception): pass class C(B): pass class D(C): pass for cls in [B, C, D]: try: raise cls() except B: print("D") except C: print("C") except B: print("B") Result is: D D D ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 331428 nosy: Alistair, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: incorrect example versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35446> _______________________________________