blanket except clause -- best practice?

[John J. Lee]

George Young <gry at ll.mit.edu> writes:

> [python 2.3.2, SuSE Linux 8.2, x86]
[...]
> try:
> 	stuff
> except _pg.error, msg:
> 	raise DatabaseError, "error '%s' in '%s'" % ( msg, sql )
> except:
>         raise OperationalError, "internal error in '%s'" % sql
> 
> 
> This accomplishes passing useful info, namely "sql", on with
> the exception.  Unfortunately it *loses* info in that upstream
> has no way to know *which* exception triggered this or what args
> it might have been given.  I'm trying to think of a clean way
> to improve this.  I could do:

Just have an attribute of OperationalError that holds the exception
caught by the except:


John