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Thu Aug 25 18:33:03 CEST 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055667.html

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:58:48AM -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Deprecation is only warranted if the interim substitute works --
> AFAICT, there is no other way to broadly catch exceptions not
> derived from Exception.

This seems to get to the heart of the problem.  I'm no fan of bare
excepts but I think we could handle them in 2.x (at least for the
next few releases) by providing a workable alternative and then
strongly discouraging their use (like we do for "from x import *").

  Neil

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[Python-Dev] Bare except clauses in PEP 348