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  r66928 | georg.brandl | 2008-10-16 20:20:56 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  Add more TOC to the whatsnew index page.
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  r66936 | georg.brandl | 2008-10-16 21:20:15 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  #4131: FF3 doesn't write cookies.txt files.
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  r66939 | georg.brandl | 2008-10-16 21:36:39 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  part of #4012: kill off old name "processing".
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  r66940 | georg.brandl | 2008-10-16 21:38:48 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  #4083: add "as" to except handler grammar as per PEP 3110.
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
index 0794755..408298d 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
 .. productionlist::
    try_stmt: try1_stmt | try2_stmt
    try1_stmt: "try" ":" `suite`
-            : ("except" [`expression` ["," `target`]] ":" `suite`)+
+            : ("except" [`expression` [("as" | ",") `target`]] ":" `suite`)+
             : ["else" ":" `suite`]
             : ["finally" ":" `suite`]
    try2_stmt: "try" ":" `suite`