[Zope3-dev] RFC: should z.a.c.attribute.AttributeIndex index None values?

[Christian Theune]

Gary Poster wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Adam Groszer wrote:
> 
>> Hello Gary,
>>
>> At the moment it is
>> try:
>>     value = value()
>> except:
>>     return None
>>
>> So that will eat the exception without any signs.
>> That makes me also glum when I have to dig deep to discover that
>> something ate an exception.
>>
>> I propose to remove the try/except.
>> Is that OK?
> 
> Yes, I think removing the bare try...except is definitely the right  
> thing to do.  (Anyone care to disagree?)

Would that change the status of this to be a feature change instead of a
bug fix?

(I'd argue it's still a candidate for a bug fix, but people might rely
on this behavior in existing applications which makes it more of a
feature change.)

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