On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Rian Hunter <rian@thelig.ht> wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2016, at 12:02 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
> I agree with Chris A's point:
>
> Any unhandled Exception is a bug. Simple as that.

I'm happy with that interpretation. If that was codified in a style document accessible to newbies I think that would help achieve a more consistent approach to exceptions.

it already is in advice all over the place: "don't use bare except"

Doesn't mean folks don't do it anyway....

I think bare except is different from "except Exception" which is common and not discouraged. "except Exception" still masks programming errors.