From: Ezio Melotti Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:25:28 +0000 (+0300) Subject: #11669: rephrase footnote in the Compound Statements page. X-Git-Tag: v3.2.1rc2~50 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc3db8a91ec2aa61810dc73c61543e0431d3267e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git #11669: rephrase footnote in the Compound Statements page. --- diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst index d261574db4af..8151a0a32126 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst @@ -615,8 +615,9 @@ can be used to create instance variables with different implementation details. .. 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