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Expand Up @@ -567,12 +567,6 @@ up the call stack (after ``raise`` but before being caught), or when code is
executing inside an ``except`` block where exception information is still
present in the thread state.

The profiler detects exceptions by checking two internal thread state fields:
the ``current_exception`` field (set when an exception is actively propagating)
and the ``exc_info`` field (set when inside an ``except`` block). When either
field contains an exception object, the thread is considered to have an active
exception.

The following example illustrates which code regions are captured:

.. code-block:: python
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