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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:26:11 +0100
Subject: Re: try... except with unknown error types
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote=
:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>> Ehh, granted. Definitely a case of "should". But certainly, there
>> won't be an infinite number of new exceptions invented;
>
> Right, the number is finite, but the issue is that it's unknown. =A0It's
> like never knowing whether you've fixed the last bug in a program.
>

Yeah. Oh, I know when I've fixed the last bug in a program. It's the
day the program gets deleted. Until then? Nope.

ChrisA