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Forbid `BaseException` in `except` block

See original GitHub issue

Rule request

Thesis

We need to forbid except BaseException: handlers.

Reasoning

We can silence system exit and keyboard interrupt with this handler. It is almost the same as raw except: block.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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AlexArcPycommented, Oct 5, 2018

I’ve started working on this. I am very knew to the wemake-python-styleguide source code which I am currently exploring, so it won’t be done any time soon… Will let you know when I stuck 😃

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sobolevncommented, Oct 19, 2018

Closed via https://github.com/wemake-services/wemake-python-styleguide/commit/58cfab4a23d54d0c61d2879c161a4d2dc9985096

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