exception problem

[Ethan Furman]

Charles Hixson wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 12:48 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> "Catch any exception" is almost certainly the wrong thing to do, almost
>> always.
>>    
> This time it was the right thing

No, it wasn't.  If you hadn't caught it, Python would have printed it 
out for you, along with the full trace-back, giving you most if not all 
the information you needed to track down the bug.

~Ethan~