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Re: try..except with empty exceptions

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: try..except with empty exceptions
Date 2015-04-11 04:58 -0400
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On 4/10/2015 9:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> try:
>      spam()
> except:
>      # Implicitly an empty tuple.
>      pass

No, specified as equivalent to 'except BaseException:' (or 'except 
(BaseException,):', either of which are different from 'except ():'.
"An expression-less except clause, if present, must be last; it matches 
any exception."

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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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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