Re:Postmodern Error Handling in Python 3.6
by crdoconnor on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:50AM
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>I often find myself using "except Exception", while I don't like it, I cannot find another way.
This (pokemon exception handling) is a massively, massively destructive anti-pattern.
Once a code base grows beyond a certain size it usually leads to failures which manifest themselves with strange behavior that takes hours (sometimes days) to track down the real source of.
This (pokemon exception handling) is a massively, massively destructive anti-pattern.
Once a code base grows beyond a certain size it usually leads to failures which manifest themselves with strange behavior that takes hours (sometimes days) to track down the real source of.