> As much as I try to avoid them (especially in Zope code), they are > sometimes necessary because you simply don't know what exceptions > might be raised from inside Python or the standard libs.
Sure. But the point is that *historically* Zope code (and lots of other Python code!) has contained a lot of places where "except:" was used when the author knew exactly which exceptions he was expecting. To make it worse when this is sometimes done for a large stretch of code, even though there are only a few specific spots where the exception is expected. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
