Except with empty tuple

Wed Oct 16 13:18:52 EDT 2019

On 2019年10月16日 15:03, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> I would like to verify I understand correctly.
>> It is about the following construct:
>> try:
> statement1
> statement2
> ...
> except ():
> pass
>> As far as I understand and my tests seem to confirm this, this
> is equivallent to just
>> statement1
> statement2
> ...
>> Am I correct or did I miss something?
>What if there's an exception?
 >>> def test_1():
... try:
... print('statement1')
... raise ValueError()
... print('statement2')
... except ():
... pass
... print('statement3')
...
 >>> def test_2():
... print('statement1')
... print('statement2')
... print('statement3')
...
 >>> test_1()
statement1
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "<stdin>", line 4, in test_1
ValueError
 >>> test_2()
statement1
statement2
statement3
So, no, it's not equivalent.