There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it

[Ben Finney]

Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com> writes:

> There are lots of reason why bare-except is bad, one being is that it
> makes it way too easy to ignore errors that you don't actually want to
> silence; and given that bare-excepts would prevent Ctrl+C (Interrupt)
> from working. Sorry, but IMHO we shouldn't make syntax sugar for bad
> practices.

Right. Another way I've seen this expressed is “It should be easy to
do the right thing, and awkward to do the wrong thing”.

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Ben Finney