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From: James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 13:37:57 +1000
Subject: Re: Overuse of try/except/else?
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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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