8000 bpo-12029: [doc] clarify that except does not match virtual subclasses of the specified exception type by iritkatriel · Pull Request #32027 · python/cpython · GitHub
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iritkatriel committed Mar 21, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ present, must be last; it matches any exception. For an except clause with an
expression, that expression is evaluated, and the clause matches the exception
if the resulting object is "compatible" with the exception. An object is
compatible with an exception if the object is the class or a non-virtual base
class of the exception object, or a tuple containing one or more such items.
class of the exception object, or a tuple containing such an item.

If no except clause matches the exception, the search for an exception handler
continues in the surrounding code and on the invocation stack. [#]_
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