diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst index 1028213699d..ff2d48d40b5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst @@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ include the originating exception(s) and the final exception. When raising a new exception (rather than using a bare ``raise`` to re-raise the exception currently being handled), the implicit exception context can be -supplemented with an explicit cause by using :keyword:`from` with +supplemented with an explicit cause by using :keyword:`from` with :keyword:`raise`:: raise new_exc from original_exc -The expression following :keyword:`from` must be an exception or ``None``. It +The expression following :keyword:`from` must be an exception or ``None``. It will be set as :attr:`__cause__` on the raised exception. Setting :attr:`__cause__` also implicitly sets the :attr:`__suppress_context__` attribute to ``True``, so that using ``raise new_exc from None`` diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst index 4a25861a050..765081b3962 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/errors.rst @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ re-raise the exception:: Exception Chaining ================== -The :keyword:`raise` statement allows an optional :keyword:`from` which enables +The :keyword:`raise` statement allows an optional :keyword:`from` which enables chaining exceptions. For example:: # exc must be exception instance or None.