11 Feb
2003
11 Feb
'03
2:46 p.m.
Paul Winkler <pw_lists@slinkp.com> wrote:
$ cd /usr/src/Zope-2.6.1-src/lib/python/Products/ $ find . -name "*py" -exec grep -H "except:" {} \; | wc -l 170
well, this is all stuff that comes with Zope, hopefully they have been vetted... but then there's all these
'fraid not. These days they tend to get fixed when someone touches the nearby code for other reasons, but no one has yet mounted a campaign to fix them all, despite this having been a known problem for quite some time now. And it's generally easier just to never use a bare except than it is to prove to yourself that the bare except isn't going to have unintended consequences. There are exceptions where a bare except is needed, of course. --RDM