[Zope3-dev] Please, no bare 'except:' clauses!

[Steve Alexander]

Chris Withers wrote:

> Shane Hathaway wrote:
>
> >
> > 3) Set a policy that says nothing should ever use bare "except:".
> > This policy breaks up, though, for error reporting and logging.  If an
> > error occurs while attempting to display or log an exception with a
> > traceback, you really don't want the error to propagate.  You might
> > want it logged somewhere.  This would require a change to both past
> > and future application code. :-)
>
>
> This also has the downside that it breaks the Zope 3 requirement to be
> able to use _any_ python code without alteration...

There is no requirement to be able to use successfully poorly written or 
broken code with Zope 3.

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Steve Alexander