Too Broad of an exception

[Rene Kita]

Rene Kita <mail at rkta.de> wrote:
> 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.
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ingrid says it's a RuntimeError, not RuntimeException.