Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Some python-based applications use incorrect constructs in their exception handling, which was reported in the following thread and results in some exceptions not being handled properly. http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/08/msg00001.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/08/threads.html#00001 According to Jakub Wilk, the following regex can be used to find python files which use the built-in exception types incorrectly: ^\s*except\s+[\w.]+\s*,\s*((?:Base)?Exception|(?:Arithmetic|Assertion|Attribute|Buffer|EOF|Environment|FloatingPoint|IO|Import|Indentation|Index|Key|Lookup|Memory|Name|NotImplemented|OS|Overflow|Reference|Runtime|Standard|Syntax|System|Tab|Type|UnboundLocal|UnicodeDecode|UnicodeEncode|Unicode|UnicodeTranslate|Value|ZeroDivision)Error|(?:Generator|System)Exit|(?:Bytes|Deprecation|Future|Import|Overflow|PendingDeprecation|Runtime|Syntax|Unicode|User)?Warning|StopIteration|KeyboardInterrupt)\s*: If the lintian package shouldn't contain individual language-specific tests like this, then this test should be implemented in pychecker, pylint or pyflakes and a lintian extras test implemented to use these tools to check python stuff. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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