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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