catching object

[Igor V. Rafienko]

[ stargaming at gmail.com ]


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> I think inheritance is meant in reference to the Exception tree here. So, 
> the uppermost class is `BaseException`. Python 3 gives this exception 
> when trying to handle `object`::
> 
>     TypeError: catching classes that do not inherit from BaseException is 
> not allowed


I realise that exceptions should inherit from Exception, but the
question is more "why isn't an instance of ValueError a match for
object, when ValueError is a subclass of object (at least in 2.5)

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> > So, why doesn't object match ValueError (or any other exception for that
> > matter). I am aware of "except:", but in my particular situation it is
> > eh... unsuitable.
> 
> Why so?


I am writing a function that takes a function and an exception list
arguments and returns a new function that calls the original while
trapping the specified arguments. One of the applications is to make a
wrapper that ignores all of the exceptions. I thought that specifying
the exception list containing object would suffice to cover that.
Alas, no joy.

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