Too Broad of an exception

[Rene Kita]

rsutton <rsutton43 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am fairly new to python (ie < 2 years).  I have a question about 
> pylint.  I am running on windows 10/11, python 3.10.11.
[...]
>         if p.returncode >= 8:
>             raise Exception(f'Invalid result: {p.returncode}')
> 
> It actually runs fine.  But pylint is not having it.  I get:
> 
> win_get_put_tb_filters.py:61:12: W0719: Raising too general exception: 
> Exception (broad-exception-raised)

pylint is just a linter, ignore it if the code works and you like it the
way it is.

pylint complains because you use Exception. Use e.g. RuntimeException to
silence it.