The Most Diabolical Python Antipattern

[Mark Lawrence]

On 30/01/2015 06:16, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> 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:
>
> ==============================
>      try:
>          do_interesting_stuff()
>      except ValueError:
>          try:
>              log_it()
>          except:
>              pass
>          raise
> ==============================
>
> Surprisingly this variant could raise an unexpected exception:
>
> ==============================
>      try:
>          do_interesting_stuff()
>      except ValueError:
>          try:
>              log_it()
>          finally:
>              raise
> ==============================
>
> A Python bug?
>
>
> Marko
>

It depends on the Python version that you're running - I think!!!  See 
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3134/ 
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0409/ 
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0415/ and finally try (groan :) 
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep3134/

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence