[mannykannot]

> ...and doesn't accidentally handle the wrong exceptions...

What support does Python offer, to the author of a function, for determining what would be the wrong exceptions for it to handle? How, in Python, does the author of a function signal, to the functions she is calling, which exceptions they should not handle? As I alluded to in my previous post, the Python language and documentation does not even give programmers a good accounting of what exceptions the library functions might throw.

[zahlman]

The point was about how the set of exceptions handled by `except:` might not match what the programmer expects, especially a programmer coming from a different language. It's not about knowing what kinds of exception the code in the `try` could raise and it isn't about telling a called function what to do.

Other languages, notably Java, have tried the "functions document what they can raise" idea. Everyone seems to hate the result.