[Python-Dev] Re: Dangerous exceptions (was Re: Another test_compilermystery)

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 11:11, Kevin Jacobs wrote:

> My policy for bare excepts is that without significant justification
> they _must_ either re-raise the original exception or raise another
> exception.  There are very few circumstances where I have allowed
> my team to write pure bare excepts.  I haven't checked, but a warning
> for violations of this rule may be a nice addition to pychecker or pylint.

The other case I've seen are for command-shell like loops, where you
might print the exception in the bare except, but not re-raise the
exception.  Think about the main interactive interpreter loop.

But yeah I agree, you want strong justification for any use of bare
except.

-Barry

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