[Zope-CMF] Re: [CMF-checkins] CVS: CMF/CMFCore - FSMetadata.py:1.5

[Florent Guillaume]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:15, Andy McKay wrote:
>  > Also, why did you add another bare except:? Surely only specific
>  > exceptions are useful.
> 
> They are but there are so many exceptions that I know of that 
> ConfigParser can through I did the next useful thing, if a error is 
> raised tell the world about it.

They seem to all be subclasses of ConfigParser.Error, besides
ValueError.

> The problem is that an error here would go upstream and was fail without 
> telling anyone, thats really bad. Guess it depends upon the attitude :)

I have no problem with logging stuff.

> That patch was over a month ago mate, so one of us would have to go and 
> recreate this to find why it was failing without raising an error or 
> logging to anything.

I'd try to recreate it if I knew the specifics of the errors you
encountered. As it is, I'll mark on my todo list to try and revisit
this. I hate bare excepts.

Florent

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