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Nope, exceptions in Python are not the same. There are a lot of standard exceptions https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#concrete-exceptions https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#concrete-e... and standard about exception type hierarchy https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg/blob/d38cf7798b0c602ff43dac9f20bbab96237a9c38/psycopg/psycopg/errors.py https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg/blob/d38cf7798b0c602ff43d... https://peps.python.org/pep-0249/#exceptions https://peps.python.org/pep-0249/#exceptions Also in most languages "catch Exception:" (or similar expression) is considered a bad style. People are taught to catch specific exceptions. Nothing like that happens in Go.