[Zope3-dev] Please, no bare 'except:' clauses!

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "SH" == Shane Hathaway <shane@zope.com> writes:

    SH> 2) Add a subclass of Exception that does not get caught by
    SH> normal "except" clauses.  "SlipperyExceptions" only get caught
    SH> by exception handlers that specifically catch
    SH> SlipperyExceptions.  This could mess up code that uses
    SH> "except:" where it should be using "finally:".  It would
    SH> require a change to Python.

IIRC, we talked about this back in the pre-class-stdexc days, but
ended up not adding it.

-Barry