The Most Diabolical Python Antipattern

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com>:

> At least use "except Exception" instead of a bare except. Do you
> really want things like SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt to get turned
> into 0?

How about:

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    try:
        do_interesting_stuff()
    except ValueError:
        try:
            log_it()
        except:
            pass
        raise
==============================

Surprisingly this variant could raise an unexpected exception:

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    try:
        do_interesting_stuff()
    except ValueError:
        try:
            log_it()
        finally:
            raise
==============================

A Python bug?


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