Typo in a listing in 5.2.9 of language reference

[gregorlingl]

BPO	6618
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[gregorlingl]

Error in:

Python v3.1 documentation >> The Python language reference >>

In the listing at the end of section 5.2.9 Yield expressions,
line 7:

... except Exception, e:

is syntactically incorrect and consequently raises a Syntax Error.
Should read:

... except Exception as e:

[birkenfeld]

Thanks, fixed in r74297, backported to 3.1 in r74298.