[Python-projects] PyLint: False positive "Except doesn't do anything"

[Sylvain Thénault]

On Thursday 23 November à 17:06, Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking for a workaround for the problem reported in my previous mail
> when I tried this:
> ===
> try:
>         pass
> except:
>         pass # pylint: disable-msg=W0702
>         print 'failed to do nothing'
> ===
> PyLint reports "W0704:  3: Except doesn't do anything".
> 
> So it seems that if the first statement after "except" is "pass", that warning
> is issued, even if other statements follow the "pass".

ticket #3205

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