Sometimes different exceptions deserve the same response. A function that parses user input might fail with ValueError (not a number) or ZeroDivisionError (a zero where a divisor was needed), and in both cases you just want to print an error and ask again. Instead of writing two identical branches, you can list several exception classes in a single except using a tuple.
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