From 345f849e674c3bd2af1f5e9cc1577a0de9969dd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mavaylon1 <mavaylon1@berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 13:57:32 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] note

---
 src/hdmf/common/table.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/hdmf/common/table.py b/src/hdmf/common/table.py
index 0878acd8f..595f74905 100644
--- a/src/hdmf/common/table.py
+++ b/src/hdmf/common/table.py
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def __gather_columns(cls, name, bases, classdict):
                             new_columns[0:0] = item.__columns__  # prepend superclass columns to new_columns
                             cls.__columns__ = tuple(new_columns)
                             break
-                    except AttributeError:
+                    except AttributeError:   # raises error when "__columns__" is not an attr of item
                         continue
 
     @docval({'name': 'name', 'type': str, 'doc': 'the name of this table'},  # noqa: C901