<html>#948: Do not use bare "except:"
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<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Reporter:</td><td>Erik Schnetter</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Status:</td><td>new</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'>Milestone:</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Version:</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Type:</td><td>bug</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Priority:</td><td>minor</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'>Component:</td><td>SimFactory</td></tr>
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<p>Changes (by Roland Haas):</p>
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<tr><td>assignee:</td><td>Roland Haas (was Erik Schnetter)</td></tr>
<tr><td>responsible:</td><td>[] (was [])</td></tr>
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<p>A bare "except:" (without listing an exception class) will intercept all exceptions, including the user typing control-C to abort. This should therefore not be used, except if (a) the code will abort anyway with an appropriate user-visible error message, or (b) the code will re-raise the exception via "raise".</p>
<p>In particular, Simfactory catches filesystem errors with bare excepts; this should be cleaned up.</p>
<p><strong>Keyword:</strong></p>
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Ticket URL: <a href='https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/948/do-not-use-bare-except'>https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/948/do-not-use-bare-except</a></p>
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