bpo-42669: Document that except rejects nested tuples (GH-23822)

In Python 2, it was possible to use `except` with a nested tuple, and occasionally natural.  For example, `zope.formlib.interfaces.InputErrors` is a tuple of several exception classes, and one might reasonably think to do something like this:

    try:
        self.getInputValue()
        return True
    except (InputErrors, SomethingElse):
        return False

As of Python 3.0, this raises `TypeError: catching classes that do not inherit from BaseException is not allowed` instead: one must instead either break it up into multiple `except` clauses or flatten the tuple.  However, the reference documentation was never updated to match this new restriction.  Make it clear that the definition is no longer recursive.

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@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ present, must be last; it matches any exception. For an except clause with an
expression, that expression is evaluated, and the clause matches the exception
if the resulting object is "compatible" with the exception. An object is
compatible with an exception if it is the class or a base class of the exception
object or a tuple containing an item compatible with the exception.
object, or a tuple containing an item that is the class or a base class of
the exception object.
If no except clause matches the exception, the search for an exception handler
continues in the surrounding code and on the invocation stack. [#]_

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@ -1849,6 +1849,7 @@ Zachary Ware
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