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?

执行你的伪代码甚至不会给出任何错误:

try:
    something
except:
    pass

就好像它是一段完全有效的代码，而不是抛出NameError。我希望这不是你想要的。

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.

第一个原因已经说过了——它隐藏了你没有预料到的错误。

(#2)——它使你的代码难以被其他人阅读和理解。如果你捕捉FileNotFoundException当你试图读取一个文件，那么它是相当明显的另一个开发人员'catch'块应该有什么功能。如果您没有指定异常，那么您需要额外的注释来解释该块应该做什么。

(#3) -它演示了惰性编程。如果您使用通用的try/catch，则表明您不了解程序中可能的运行时错误，或者您不知道Python中可能存在哪些异常。捕捉特定的错误表明您了解程序和Python抛出的错误范围。这更有可能使其他开发人员和代码审查人员信任您的工作。

In my opinion errors have a reason to appear, that my sound stupid, but thats the way it is. Good programming only raises errors when you have to handle them. Also, as i read some time ago, "the pass-Statement is a Statement that Shows code will be inserted later", so if you want to have an empty except-statement feel free to do so, but for a good program there will be a part missing. because you dont handle the things you should have. Appearing exceptions give you the chance to correct input data or to change your data structure so these exceptions dont occur again (but in most cases (Network-exceptions, General input-exceptions) exceptions indicate that the next parts of the program wont execute well. For example a NetworkException can indicate a broken network-connection and the program cant send/recieve data in the next program steps.

但是只对一个执行块使用pass块是有效的，因为你仍然可以区分不同类型的异常，所以如果你把所有的异常块放在一个中，它就不是空的:

try:
    #code here
except Error1:
    #exception handle1

except Error2:
    #exception handle2
#and so on

可以写成这样:

try:
    #code here
except BaseException as e:
    if isinstance(e, Error1):
        #exception handle1

    elif isinstance(e, Error2):
        #exception handle2

    ...

    else:
        raise

因此，即使是多个带有pass语句的异常块也可能导致代码，其结构处理特殊类型的异常。

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。