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Update docs/docsite/rst/playbook_guide/playbooks_blocks.rst
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@@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ Handling errors with blocks

You can control how Ansible responds to task errors using blocks with ``rescue`` and ``always`` sections.

Rescue blocks specify tasks to run when an earlier task in a block fails. This approach is similar to exception handling in many programming languages. Ansible only runs rescue blocks after a task returns a 'failed' state. Bad task definitions and unreachable hosts will not trigger the rescue block.
.. note::

Errors caused by invalid task definitions and unreachable hosts do not trigger the ``rescue`` or ``always`` sections of a block.

Rescue blocks specify tasks to run when an earlier task in a block fails. This approach is similar to exception handling in many programming languages. Ansible only runs rescue blocks after a task returns a 'failed' state.

.. _block_rescue:
.. code-block:: YAML