[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle. (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Tue May 29 03:48:17 CEST 2012


On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

+            except:  return None

"except Exception" may be better here. Idle's Shell catches all exceptions. I think the attempt to provide an optional help (a function signature) should too.

Can you explain what this means? You should probably not have a bare except - I'm not sure what IDLE has to do with it.



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