How to prevent "too broad exception" in this case?
The PEP8 guide you quote suggests that it is okay to use a bare exception in your case provided you are logging the errors. I would think that you should cover as many exceptions as you can/know how to deal with and then log the rest and pass
, e.g.
import logging
list_of_functions = [f_a,f_b,f_c]
for current_function in list_of_functions:
try:
current_function()
except KnownException:
raise
except Exception as e:
logging.exception(e)
You can just put a comment like except Exception as error: # pylint: disable=broad-except
that's worked for me actually. I hope it could be work for you.
Use this to cheat PEP8:
try:
"""code"""
except (Exception,):
pass
I think in some rare cases catching general exception is just justified and there is a way to trick PEP8 inspection:
list_of_functions = [f_a,f_b,f_c]
for current_function in list_of_functions:
try:
current_function()
except (ValueError, Exception):
print(traceback.format_exc())
You can replace ValueError
by any other. It works for me (at least in PyCharm).