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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:25:36 -0600
Subject: Re: open() and EOFError
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> But if the code's more complicated and it's not so easy to split, then
> sure, doesn't seem a problem. It's like spam[foo//bar] and then
> catching either IndexError or ZeroDivisionError - there's no big
> confusion from having two distinct sources of two distinct errors
> handled by two distinct except blocks.

It's good practice to keep your try blocks as narrow as possible in
any case.  One wouldn't normally expect them, but a custom __getitem__
*could* cause a ZeroDivisionError, and a custom __floordiv__ *could*
cause an IndexError.