[code-quality] [feature request] Unused variable warning for "except Exception as e"

[Ian Stapleton Cordasco]

Hi Shane,

Can you share what version of pyflakes and on what version of python you're
running?

For future reference, I think the preferred location for ideas and bugs is
github.com/PyCQA/pyflakes/issues

Sent from my phone with my typo-happy thumbs. Please excuse my brevity

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 20:09 Shane Creighton-Young <shane at goubiq.com> wrote:

> Hello flake8!
>
> I would have expected pyflakes to emit an unused variables warning for "e"
> on the following code snippet:
>
> class ModuleError(Exception):
>     pass
>
> try:
>     1 / 0
> except ZeroDivisionError as e:
>     raise ModuleError()
>
> Curious if this check can be added.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> Shane Creighton-Young
> shane at goubiq.com
>
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