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Re: try..except with empty exceptions

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On Friday, April 10, 2015 at 2:18:22 PM UTC+5:30, Pavel S wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed interesting behaviour. Since I don't have python3 installation here, I tested that on Python 2.7.
> 
> Well known feature is that try..except block can catch multiple exceptions listed in a tuple:
> 
> 
> exceptions = ( TypeError, ValueError )
> 
> try:
>     a, b = None
> except exceptions, e:
>     print 'Catched error:', e
> 
> 
> However when exceptions=(), then try..except block behaves as no try..except block.
> 
> 
> exceptions = ()
> 
> try:
>     a, b = None   # <--- the error will not be catched
> except exceptions, e:
>     print 'Catched error:', e
> 
> 
> I found use case for it, e.g. when I want to have a method with 'exceptions' argument:
> 
> 
> def catch_exceptions(exceptions=()):
>   try:
>      do_something()
>   except exceptions:
>      do_something_else()
> 
> 
> catch_exceptions()               # catches nothing
> catch_exceptions((TypeError,))   # catches TypeError
> 
> 
> I believe that behaviour is not documented. What you think?

As others have pointed out: "You asked for it; you got it; what's the issue?"

Nevertheless a tentative +1 from me on the suggestions ∵

except :

catches everything 

except ():

catches nothing --- which is brittle to say the least.

Also given this sort of lines in the docs (2.7 tutorial):

-----------------------------
... except (RuntimeError, TypeError, NameError):
...     pass

Note that the parentheses around this tuple are required, because except
ValueError, e: was the syntax used for what is normally written as except
ValueError as e: in modern Python (described below). The old syntax is still 
supported for backwards compatibility. This means except RuntimeError, 
TypeError is not equivalent to except (RuntimeError, TypeError): but to except 
RuntimeError as TypeError: which is not what you want.
------------------------------------

there's already some versioning related brittleness around except.

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try..except with empty exceptions Pavel S <pavel@schon.cz> - 2015-04-10 01:48 -0700
  Re: try..except with empty exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 18:58 +1000
  Re: try..except with empty exceptions sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-04-10 12:31 -0700
    Re: try..except with empty exceptions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-11 11:42 +1000
      Re: try..except with empty exceptions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-10 22:23 -0400
        Re: try..except with empty exceptions Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 19:38 -0700
          Re: try..except with empty exceptions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-10 23:46 -0400
            Re: try..except with empty exceptions Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 21:17 -0700
              Re: try..except with empty exceptions Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 21:39 -0700
          Re: try..except with empty exceptions Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-04-11 19:27 +1000
            Re: try..except with empty exceptions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-11 21:00 +1000
              Re: try..except with empty exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 21:21 +1000
              Re: try..except with empty exceptions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 12:49 -0600
              Re: try..except with empty exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 06:04 +1000
              Re: try..except with empty exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 06:05 +1000
        Re: try..except with empty exceptions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-11 17:11 +1000
          Re: try..except with empty exceptions Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 11:22 +0300
            Re: try..except with empty exceptions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-11 20:47 +1000
          Re: try..except with empty exceptions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-11 06:14 -0400
          Re: try..except with empty exceptions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-11 06:24 -0400
          Re: try..except with empty exceptions Ian Foote <ian@feete.org> - 2015-04-11 15:20 +0100
      Re: try..except with empty exceptions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-04-11 04:58 -0400
  Re: try..except with empty exceptions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-10 16:27 -0400
  Re: try..except with empty exceptions Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-04-10 18:56 -0700

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