[Python-Dev] Proposing a sys.special_exceptions tuple

[Lalo Martins]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:19:22AM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 
> Also, maybe in 2.5 we could begin warning about bare excepts that aren't 
> preceded by non-bare exceptions.

try:
  foo()
except:
  print_or_log_exception_in_a_way_that_is_meaningful()
  raise

doesn't seem to be incorrect to me.  For example, if the program
is a daemon, I want the exception logged somewhere so that I can
see it later, because I won't be watching stderr.

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