Re: [Zope] Bare except clause in respect to self.DestinationURL()

--On 13. Oktober 2007 21:30:05 +0200 Sascha Welter <zopelist@betabug.ch> wrote:

Hello Zopistas!

This pattern here is very common in many people's Zope products:

try: u=self.DestinationURL() except: u=REQUEST['URL1']

All those people should burn ...

It's usually in the manage_addXY() method, when all the work is done, we test for REQUEST!=None and we want to know where to redirect to.

Is there a reason for that bare except here? Wouldn't except AttributeError: ... do the job just as well?

Basically yes - unless the method being called might raise other errors as well. -aj