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Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com>
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miss-islington and iritkatriel committed Oct 21, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ the case of :keyword:`except`, but in the case of exception groups we can have
partial matches when the type matches some of the exceptions in the group.
This means that multiple :keyword:`!except*` clauses can execute,
each handling part of the exception group.
Each clause executes once and handles an exception group
Each clause executes at most once and handles an exception group
of all matching exceptions. Each exception in the group is handled by at most
one :keyword:`!except*` clause, the first that matches it. ::

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| ValueError: 1
+------------------------------------


Any remaining exceptions that were not handled by any :keyword:`!except*`
clause are re-raised at the end, combined into an exception group along with
all exceptions that were raised from within :keyword:`!except*` clauses.

If the raised exception is not an exception group and its type matches
one of the :keyword:`!except*` clauses, it is caught and wrapped by an
exception group with an empty message string. ::

>>> try:
... raise BlockingIOError
... except* BlockingIOError as e:
... print(repr(e))
...
ExceptionGroup('', (BlockingIOError()))

An :keyword:`!except*` clause must have a matching type,
and this type cannot be a subclass of :exc:`BaseExceptionGroup`.
It is not possible to mix :keyword:`except` and :keyword:`!except*`
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