broad-exception-caught / W0718

[DiskCrasher]

Is the intent of this warning to persuade the developer to never use catch Exception? I can understand if it's the only exception being caught but if it follows one or more other catch statements then shouldn't that be enough? I want to say with C# you get a similar error but only if you use catch Exception exclusively.

[karthiknadig]

@DiskCrasher This question is better suited in the pylint repo (https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint) or their discord (listed here https://pypi.org/project/pylint/). This repo is for the VS Code extension that wraps pylint for UI integrations with VS Code.

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

There's also a documentation that explains the intent : https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/messages/warning/broad-exception-caught.html :)

[DiskCrasher]

The discussion/argument is now taking place here.