On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > 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.
With the exception (if you'll excuse the expression) of "framework" systems, where there's a distinct separation between "inside" and "outside". Often then, the "outside" will catch any exception thrown by the "inside" and deal with it in some generic way (for instance, a web server might log the details and return HTTP 500 to the client, then go back and handle the next request). Effectively, this is doing the job of the top-level exception handler: log the exception (to the console) and terminate. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
