On 2016-03-21 10:29, Petr Spacek wrote:
> On 20.3.2016 21:56, Martin Basti wrote:
>> Patches attached.
> 
> I do not really like
> freeipa-mbasti-0442-pylint-remove-bare-except
> because it replaces most of
> 
> try: ... except:
> 
> with
> 
> try: ... except Exception:
> 
> 
> which AFAIK does not add any value. It would be better to replace Exception
> with more specific exception so the code raises an error instead of continuing
> when something really unexpected happens.

It adds some value. A bare except also excepts signals like
KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit. except Exception doesn't block these
exceptions.

But yes, more specific exceptions are better.

Christian


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