On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:52:19 +0100, Kwpolska wrote: > Also, you can do `except:` for a catch-all, but it is discouraged unless > you have REALLY good reasons to do this. And, most of the time, you > don’t.
`except Exception` is to be much preferred over a bare except. It excludes KeyboardInterruptError (the user hits Ctrl-C) and SystemExit, which you normally either want to let through, or handle separately. But yes, in general, only catch the minimum you *know* you need to catch and can deal with. Anything else is a bug in your code that needs to be fixed, and you can't fix it if you never see the exception. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
