Abuse of the object-nature of functions?

[Georg Brandl]

Ant wrote:
>> Is there a way in python to say, "hey, catch everything but these two"?
> 
>>>> try:
> ...   raise AttributeError
> ... except Exception, ex:
> ...   if isinstance(ex, AttributeError):
> ...     print "Won't catch it!"
> ...     raise ex
> ...
> 
> Won't catch it!
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 7, in ?
> AttributeError
> 
> Or that sort of thing.

To just reraise an exception, use a bare "raise".

Georg