[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

Łukasz Langa added the comment: Thanks, Thomas! ✨  ✨ -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.11 ___ Python tracker

[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 699ee016af5736ffc80f68359617611a22b72943 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.10': bpo-41576: document BaseException in favor of bare except (GH-21917) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/699ee016af5736ffc80f68359617611a22b72943

[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

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[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

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[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

Łukasz Langa added the comment: New changeset e9a6f1b78bf57d9f3f99547bd007d7cfc9724cfb by Thomas Grainger in branch 'main': bpo-41576: document BaseException in favor of bare except (GH-21917) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e9a6f1b78bf57d9f3f99547bd007d7cfc9724cfb -- nosy:

[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

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[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

Thomas Grainger added the comment: The purpose of this tutorial section is to document how to catch all types of exceptions and extract the type and value. When this is required, `BaseException as err:` is the preferred approach. This document still mentions the alternative approach so that

[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: It is a tutorial. The purpose of this part is documenting the bare except clause. It cannot be done without using a bare except in example. There is nothing wrong with a bare except if it used properly (e.g. if the caught exception is reraised). In any

[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: PEP 8 discourages the use of bare except. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

Thomas Grainger added the comment: it seems odd to document digging around in sys.exc_info() in favour of the more ergonomic syntax to do the same thing -- ___ Python tracker

[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka : What a problem do you try to solve? What is wrong with the current documentation? -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___

[issue41576] document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial

Change by Thomas Grainger : -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation nosy: docs@python, graingert priority: normal pull_requests: 21033 severity: normal status: open title: document BaseException in favour of bare except in error tutorial