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except handler type error should admit the possibility of tuples #5349

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@benjaminp
$ mypy --version
mypy 0.610
$ cat exception.py
def f() -> None:
    excs = [IOError, LookupError]
    try:
        pass
    except excs:
        pass
$ mypy exception.py 
exception.py:5: error: Exception type must be derived from BaseException

While it's true that this code is incorrect, I probably want to fix it by writing excs = (IOError, LookupError) rather than somehow making my list a subclass of BaseException.

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