On 01/03/2017 01:41 PM, breamoreboy at gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, I'd suggest that this [1] is not one of the greatest articles > ever written about Python exception handling. Other opinions are welcome. Aside from calling "except Exception" a "naked except" I think it's decent. He walks through the problem, explains the rationale, and only has one line of code guarded by the except clause. -- ~Ethan~ [1] http://blog.pyspoken.com/2017/01/02/how-best-to-coerce-python-objects-to-in tegers/