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Re: Overuse of try/except/else?

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From James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date 2011-05-11 13:37 +1000
Subject Re: Overuse of try/except/else?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant
<jeanmichel@sequans.com> wrote:
> You can reraise the exception without loosing the stack trace.
>
> try:
> ...
> except SomeException, exc:
> log(exc)
> print 'Hello world'
> raise # "raise exc" would loose the original stack trace

Valid point :) However I was referring to real experience
where I've seen code that "catches all any any exception"
and simply logs it.

cheers
James

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-- James Mills
--
-- "Problems are solved by method"

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Overuse of try/except/else? "Kyle T. Jones" <onexpadREMOVE@EVOMERyahoodotyouknow.com> - 2011-05-09 19:40 -0500
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> - 2011-05-10 11:09 +1000
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2011-05-10 11:34 +0200
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> - 2011-05-10 07:36 -0400
    Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-05-10 13:10 +0100
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Paul Probert <paulprobert@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-05-10 22:26 -0500
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> - 2011-05-11 13:37 +1000
  Re: Overuse of try/except/else? Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 00:33 +1100

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