Op 2005-02-09, Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Ah, yes, the penny dropped. The try: except where there because >> originally there were other statements I wanted to test and I >> didn't want the raise exception by the inc(-2) stop the script. >> I completely forget to consider it would also catch the >> error I was expecting. > > A very good example of why you should (almost) never use a bare except: > ... >
Well in this case I would say the fault was not with the bare except: The intention was to put the following. except: print sys.excepthook(*sys.exc_info()) But I always forget this idiom, one with full "except" the other abrviated to "exc", one in one word the other with an underscore I always forget which is which and being in a hurry I just put a pass thinking I would look it up and replace it later. But before I did so I tested it a first time and was so surprised I forgot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
