[Zope-dev] Greedy except clauses

[Tom Jenkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Hylton [mailto:jeremy@digicool.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:49 AM
> To: Chris Withers
> Cc: Anthony Baxter; Chris McDonough; richard@bizarsoftware.com.au;
> zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Greedy except clauses
> 
> 
> >>>>> "CW" == Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:
> 
>   >> 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
> 
>   CW> Will that catch string exceptions?  eg: raise 'Something bad
>   CW> happened'
> 
> No.
> 
>   CW> If not, then it's not much use in Zope, which is unfortunately
>   CW> riddled with String exceptions :-S
> 
> That might be something worth fixing, too. :-)
> 
> Jeremy
> 

I agree.  I think this would be a good project for new zope developers to
get into the zope code.  Would we need an ZopeException class hierarchy?

Anthony: can your script be modified to print out the raise statements too
<wink>?

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