Commit b086c8af authored by Andrés Delfino's avatar Andrés Delfino Committed by Miss Islington (bot)

bpo-33699: Describe try's else clause with the rest of the try clause (GH-7252)



https://bugs.python.org/issue33699
parent 76e8fd7b
......@@ -314,9 +314,11 @@ from a function that handled an exception.
statement: break
statement: continue
The optional :keyword:`else` clause is executed if and when control flows off
the end of the :keyword:`try` clause. [#]_ Exceptions in the :keyword:`else`
clause are not handled by the preceding :keyword:`except` clauses.
The optional :keyword:`else` clause is executed if the control flow leaves the
:keyword:`try` suite, no exception was raised, and no :keyword:`return`,
:keyword:`continue`, or :keyword:`break` statement was executed. Exceptions in
the :keyword:`else` clause are not handled by the preceding :keyword:`except`
clauses.
.. index:: keyword: finally
......@@ -847,10 +849,6 @@ body of a coroutine function.
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` statement.
.. [#] A string literal appearing as the first statement in the function body is
transformed into the function's ``__doc__`` attribute and therefore the
function's :term:`docstring`.
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