> I have to use my meat brain to figure out if I've handled all the exceptions that might come up The point of exceptions is exactly that you don't want to han

> I have to use my meat brain to figure out if I've handled all the exceptions that might come up The point of exceptions is exactly that you don't want to handle all that might come up -- you need to handle only those that you actually expect and know how to handle. Everything else is left to bubble up and either be handled by a custom, generic top-level handler, or by the language's default mechanism (in Python's case, dumping a stack trace).