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Author brett.cannon
Recipients Nathaniel Manista, brett.cannon, docs@python, methane, rhettinger
Date 2018-08-29.19:17:05
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I think the question is how often in real code to people want to catch all exceptions produced by a package or module but not any others. Perhaps it would be better to re-word the advice that when there are many related exceptions that it is suggested you have a base class for them?
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