[Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): #11669: rephrase footnote in the Compound Statements page.

[ezio.melotti]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b11e7bc76d07
changeset:   70988:b11e7bc76d07
branch:      2.7
parent:      70986:804a60029091
user:        Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com>
date:        Sun Jun 26 11:25:28 2011 +0300
summary:
  #11669: rephrase footnote in the Compound Statements page.

files:
  Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst |  5 +++--
  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
--- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
@@ -562,8 +562,9 @@
 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 
-.. [#] 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.
 
 .. [#] Currently, control "flows off the end" except in the case of an exception or the
    execution of a :keyword:`return`, :keyword:`continue`, or :keyword:`break`

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