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Expand Up @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ This can be useful when you are transforming exceptions. For example::
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 2, in func
OSError
IOError
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You would have thought so, but actually IOError is an alias for OSError and this output is actually correct. I would suggest to replace the exception by some other type which is more suitable for a tutorial example.

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>>> str(IOError)
"<class 'OSError'>"

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The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
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