Re: Dealing with exceptions

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On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> But yes, in general, only catch the minimum you *know* you need to catch
> and can deal with. Anything else is a bug in your code that needs to be
> fixed, and you can't fix it if you never see the exception.

With the exception (if you'll excuse the expression) of "framework"
systems, where there's a distinct separation between "inside" and
"outside". Often then, the "outside" will catch any exception thrown
by the "inside" and deal with it in some generic way (for instance, a
web server might log the details and return HTTP 500 to the client,
then go back and handle the next request). Effectively, this is doing
the job of the top-level exception handler: log the exception (to the
console) and terminate.

ChrisA

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Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 09:40 -0800
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 18:52 +0100
    Re: Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 11:35 -0800
      Re: Dealing with exceptions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-03 01:41 +0000
    Re: Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 11:35 -0800
    Re: Dealing with exceptions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-03 00:41 +0000
      Re: Dealing with exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 12:04 +1100
    Re: Dealing with exceptions Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-03-03 23:01 +0000
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 10:58 -0700
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 11:00 -0700
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 05:21 +1100
    Re: Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 11:39 -0800
    Re: Dealing with exceptions bvdp <bob@mellowood.ca> - 2013-03-02 11:39 -0800
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-03-02 19:18 +0000
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 14:27 -0500
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-03-02 11:43 -0800
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-03-02 16:23 -0500
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 09:16 +1100
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-03-02 18:08 -0500
  Re: Dealing with exceptions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 10:17 +1100

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