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?

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)。

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。

你至少应该使用except Exception:来避免捕获系统异常，如SystemExit或KeyboardInterrupt。这里是文档链接。

一般来说，您应该显式地定义想要捕获的异常，以避免捕获不想要的异常。您应该知道您忽略了哪些异常。

>>> import this

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than right now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

所以，这是我的观点。每当你发现一个错误，你应该做一些事情来处理它，即把它写在日志文件或其他东西。至少，它告诉您曾经有一个错误。

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.