From 1402d2ceca8ccef8c3538906b3f547365891d391 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:49:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gh-95914: Add paragraph about PEP 654 in main body of 'What's New in 3.11' (GH-95937) --- Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst index 41aa6944395f42..637d12b61e7f90 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst @@ -176,8 +176,25 @@ The :option:`-X` ``no_debug_ranges`` option and the environment variable See :pep:`657` for more details. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo, Batuhan Taskaya and Ammar Askar in :issue:`43950`.) -Exceptions can be enriched with notes (PEP 678) -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +PEP 654: Exception Groups and ``except*`` +----------------------------------------- + +:pep:`654` introduces language features that enable a program +to raise and handle multiple unrelated exceptions simultaneously. +The builtin types :exc:`ExceptionGroup` and :exc:`BaseExceptionGroup` +make it possible to group exceptions and raise them together, +and the new :keyword:`except* ` syntax generalizes +:keyword:`except` to match subgroups of exception groups. + +See :pep:`654` for more details. + +(Contributed by Irit Katriel in :issue:`45292`. PEP written by +Irit Katriel, Yury Selivanov and Guido van Rossum.) + + +PEP 678: Exceptions can be enriched with notes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The :meth:`add_note` method was added to :exc:`BaseException`. It can be used to enrich exceptions with context information which is not available