Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (3.2): #11669: rephrase footnote in the Compound Statements page.

June 26, 2011

      On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:38 PM, ezio.melotti
<python-checkins@python.org> 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.

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