首先，它违背了Python的两个禅宗原则:

显性比隐性好 错误绝不能悄无声息地过去

它的意思是，你故意让你的错误悄无声息地过去。此外，您不知道究竟发生了哪个错误，因为except: pass将捕获任何异常。

其次，如果我们试图从Python的禅意中抽象出来，而只是从理智的角度来说话，你应该知道，使用except:pass会让你在系统中失去知识和控制。经验法则是，如果发生错误，就引发异常，并采取适当的操作。如果你事先不知道这些操作应该是什么，至少在某个地方记录错误(最好重新引发异常):

try:
    something
except:
    logger.exception('Something happened')

但是，通常情况下，如果您试图捕获任何异常，那么您可能正在做错误的事情!

那么，这段代码产生了什么输出呢?

fruits = [ 'apple', 'pear', 'carrot', 'banana' ]

found = False
try:
     for i in range(len(fruit)):
         if fruits[i] == 'apple':
             found = true
except:
     pass

if found:
    print "Found an apple"
else:
    print "No apples in list"

现在，想象一下try-except块是对复杂对象层次结构的数百行调用，并且本身是在大型程序的调用树中间调用的。当程序出问题时，你从哪里开始寻找?

except:pass构造本质上是在运行try:块中包含的代码时，使出现的任何和所有异常条件保持沉默。

这种糟糕的做法是因为它通常不是你真正想要的。更常见的情况是，出现一些特定的情况，你想要保持沉默，除了:pass是一个太生硬的工具。它将完成工作，但它也会掩盖其他错误条件，您可能没有预料到，但可能非常希望以其他方式处理。

What makes this particularly important in Python is that by the idioms of this language, exceptions are not necessarily errors. They're often used this way, of course, just as in most languages. But Python in particular has occasionally used them to implement an alternative exit path from some code tasks which isn't really part of the normal running case, but is still known to come up from time to time and may even be expected in most cases. SystemExit has already been mentioned as an old example, but the most common example nowadays may be StopIteration. Using exceptions this way caused a lot of controversy, especially when iterators and generators were first introduced to Python, but eventually the idea prevailed.

通常，您可以将任何错误/异常分为以下三类之一:

Fatal: Not your fault, you cannot prevent them, you cannot recover from them. You should certainly not ignore them and continue, and leave your program in an unknown state. Just let the error terminate your program, there is nothing you can do. Boneheaded: Your own fault, most likely due to an oversight, bug or programming error. You should fix the bug. Again, you should most certainly not ignore and continue. Exogenous: You can expect these errors in exceptional situations, such as file not found or connection terminated. You should explicitly handle these errors, and only these.

在除了:pass之外的所有情况下，pass只会让你的程序处于未知状态，在这种状态下它会造成更多的损害。

因为它还没有被提及，所以使用contextlib.suppress是更好的风格:

with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
    os.remove('somefile.tmp')

在本例中，somefile.tmp在执行此代码块后将不存在，而不会引发任何异常(除了FileNotFoundError，它被抑制)。

我个人更喜欢这个解决方案:

except ValueError as error:
                print(error.args)
                pass

错误。Args给了我一个简单的代码行，它不会太分散人的注意力，但确实有助于代码审查，特别是如果错误有不同的原因，比如

(ValueError('year 0 is out of range'),)
(ValueError('month must be in 1..12'),)
(ValueError('day is out of range for month'),)

当研究熊猫的时间周期时。