On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 04:38:18PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 03:39:58PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> >> And update the URL which lists error codes (and also points to
> >> additional sources for error codes).
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>
> >
> > Would you mind explaining a bit more?  Do we have violations of this
> > rule?  I don't get failures here myself, so is it a rule added in some
> > newer version of flake8 than what I'm running?
> 
> I think it's probably from a newer version of flake8 (3.5.0, mccabe:
> 0.6.1, pycodestyle: 2.3.1, pyflakes: 1.6.0).  Without this patch, I get
> the following errors (probably I should have included this in my commit
> message - apologies):
> 
>   utilities/checkpatch.py:476:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/checkpatch.py:514:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/ovs-dev.py:189:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/ovs-dev.py:192:9: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/ovs-dev.py:197:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:360:13: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:434:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:470:13: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:609:9: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:679:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:712:13: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:735:5: E741 ambiguous variable name 'l'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:744:9: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:751:9: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:825:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:1006:13: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:1041:13: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:1079:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:1124:5: E741 ambiguous variable name 'l'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:1202:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:1247:9: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:1257:13: E722 do not use bare except'
>   utilities/bugtool/ovs-bugtool.in:1328:9: E722 do not use bare except'
>   tests/test-daemon.py:60:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   tests/test-l7.py:23:1: E722 do not use bare except'
>   tests/test-unixctl.py:96:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   xenserver/usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_ovs-xapi-sync:404:5: E722 do not 
> use bare except'
>   python/ovs/fcntl_win.py:39:9: E722 do not use bare except'
>   python/ovs/poller.py:38:1: E722 do not use bare except'
>   python/ovs/socket_util.py:151:13: E722 do not use bare except'
>   python/ovs/stream.py:169:17: E722 do not use bare except'
>   python/ovs/stream.py:578:17: E722 do not use bare except'
>   python/ovs/timeval.py:51:1: E722 do not use bare except'
>   python/ovstest/util.py:52:5: E722 do not use bare except'
>   vtep/ovs-vtep:767:5: E722 do not use bare except'
> 
> I assumed that since it appears in many files, it's probably okay to be
> ignoring this error (bare except hides the exception, which is usually
> 'bad form').  Maybe another approach would be to try and fix them all,
> but that means understanding which exceptions should be handled and
> allowing the rest to bubble up to the user.  That would take more time
> than I have, though.

Thanks for the extra info.  Would you mind reposting with that added
information?
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