[Python-ideas] Proposal: Abolition of bare except clauses
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Mon Apr 13 00:39:45 CEST 2015
For the record, as a Python 2/3 user of the occasional bare "except:" I was
against this over on python-list, but Chris and Steven have convinced me
otherwise. I'm now +0.5 and will probably be +1 in time.
I was using a few bare excepts in boundary code that needed to plough on in the
face of failures of a callable, but have been convinced that I would be better
off with "except Exception:" most of the time, and I'm going to put some work
into stripping out my bare "except:"s and mostly catching Exception and
possibly reporting BaseException (and reraising) as a debugging/insight aid.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
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