> Take that up with the consensus view of the python community, as reflected by python linters in their default configuration, almost all of which warn on bare

> Take that up with the consensus view of the python community, as reflected by python linters in their default configuration, almost all of which warn on bare except. I don't fully agree on it being a purely a style issue (though the warnings from linters are wholly justified). From what I understand, "except:" is a code smell because you don't actually want to catch BaseException instead of just Exception. Linters wouldn't have warned about it if it meant "except Exception:". The real issue, IMO, is the fact non-exceptions (Ctrl-C, generator exit, program exit code, etc.) have been crammed into the exception system.