>Even then, a method you call can be modified later to throw a new exception and your code will crash. The only solution is to use the root Exception class whic

>Even then, a method you call can be modified later to throw a new exception and your code will crash. The only solution is to use the root Exception class which everyone agrees is a bad idea. This view was (is?) very widespread in the Python community, which led me astray as a beginner. Trying to find each individual exception that a function can throw when you really only care if it errored or not is a fool's errand. These days I just catch the base Exception, and only catch specific subclasses of it if there's an actual need to.