Victor Subervi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:41 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com > <mailto:python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote: >> DON'T USE BARE EXCEPTS! >> >> (There are 2 in your code.) > > There are times when they are *necessary*. No, there aren't. Even if there were, this is not one of those situations. -- Matt Nordhoff