From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:34:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: tighten up except - in this context, AttributeError is the only exception
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~6364
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ce0073a4e1e5bbc3d710a6c4f1700db6b29827c;p=python

tighten up except - in this context, AttributeError is the only exception
that can be raised - do_help won't be called if arg is not a string
---

diff --git a/Lib/cmd.py b/Lib/cmd.py
index 5f955a7c10..5bbf4bcc7c 100644
--- a/Lib/cmd.py
+++ b/Lib/cmd.py
@@ -214,13 +214,13 @@ class Cmd:
             # XXX check arg syntax
             try:
                 func = getattr(self, 'help_' + arg)
-            except:
+            except AttributeError:
                 try:
                     doc=getattr(self, 'do_' + arg).__doc__
                     if doc:
                         print doc
                         return
-                except:
+                except AttributeError:
                     pass
                 print self.nohelp % (arg,)
                 return