Re: [Zope-dev] Greedy except clauses

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

I am probably a bit idiosyncratic, but I prefer to avoid bare excepts at all costs. I often use "except Exception:", otherwise I add a

Will that catch string exceptions? eg: raise 'Something bad happened' If not, then it's not much use in Zope, which is unfortunately riddled with String exceptions :-S cheers, Chris