Don't use bare 'except:'

They catch any exception, including KeyboardInterrupt, we don't want to catch it.

diff --git a/devscripts/check-porn.py b/devscripts/check-porn.py
index 6a5bd9eda333246c47064bf84cfc03da09de4caf..7a219ebe97c555be79a55cf4dc30bf2cb823ca28 100644 (file)
--- a/devscripts/check-porn.py
+++ b/devscripts/check-porn.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ for test in get_testcases():
     if METHOD == 'EURISTIC':
         try:
             webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(test['url'], timeout=10).read()
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             print('\nFail: {0}'.format(test['name']))
             continue
 

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index b5ef5e009f972cb9308bf5c09c561ce393c05a2a..640b8c99d75d6215b232c0d2d678dd903f41e8bb 100755 (executable)
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1701,10 +1701,10 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
             out = out.decode().strip()
             if re.match('[0-9a-f]+', out):
                 self._write_string('[debug] Git HEAD: ' + out + '\n')
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             try:
                 sys.exc_clear()
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 pass
         self._write_string('[debug] Python version %s - %s\n' % (
             platform.python_version(), platform_name()))

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index b2bf149ef63ffb1c31bfb02f976f5cce2dbadad3..973bcd32074107f70c1b781e95b97ef34501b88f 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ else:
                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
             out, err = sp.communicate()
             lines, columns = map(int, out.split())
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             pass
         return _terminal_size(columns, lines)
 

diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
index 8ed5c19a6b8079c9807faa4fa7a505a398974975..ca14d64bc192cd8d783ffe604198ec2b064e2cc9 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
             return
         try:
             os.utime(filename, (time.time(), filetime))
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             pass
         return filetime
 

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/youporn.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/youporn.py
index e4c855ee0e3616981c77d41b441f15adf6ce0453..6abe72f739b63d8b39d8cdfc5bfccf70dc545715 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/youporn.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/youporn.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class YouPornIE(InfoExtractor):
             webpage, 'JSON parameters')
         try:
             params = json.loads(json_params)
-        except:
+        except ValueError:
             raise ExtractorError('Invalid JSON')
 
         self.report_extraction(video_id)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py
index b6f51cfd5e1ed5cebb4981dfbf3152e67ed33d1d..55adf9685b3e1407d6cb1fe1e1205e290203fa95 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/ffmpeg.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import io
 import os
 import subprocess
-import sys
 import time
 
 
@@ -269,19 +268,17 @@ class FFmpegExtractAudioPP(FFmpegPostProcessor):
             else:
                 self._downloader.to_screen('[' + self.basename + '] Destination: ' + new_path)
                 self.run_ffmpeg(path, new_path, acodec, more_opts)
-        except:
-            etype, e, tb = sys.exc_info()
-            if isinstance(e, AudioConversionError):
-                msg = 'audio conversion failed: ' + e.msg
-            else:
-                msg = 'error running ' + self.basename
-            raise PostProcessingError(msg)
+        except AudioConversionError as e:
+            raise PostProcessingError(
+                'audio conversion failed: ' + e.msg)
+        except Exception:
+            raise PostProcessingError('error running ' + self.basename)
 
         # Try to update the date time for extracted audio file.
         if information.get('filetime') is not None:
             try:
                 os.utime(encodeFilename(new_path), (time.time(), information['filetime']))
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 self._downloader.report_warning('Cannot update utime of audio file')
 
         information['filepath'] = new_path

diff --git a/youtube_dl/update.py b/youtube_dl/update.py
index d8be4049f5dce0fdd9a61f2aff3c4284d494e598..de3169eef1d6ec29d82a60b2f4b6a68f49d7dd4e 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/update.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/update.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose):
     # Check if there is a new version
     try:
         newversion = opener.open(VERSION_URL).read().decode('utf-8').strip()
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         if verbose:
             to_screen(compat_str(traceback.format_exc()))
         to_screen('ERROR: can\'t find the current version. Please try again later.')
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose):
     try:
         versions_info = opener.open(JSON_URL).read().decode('utf-8')
         versions_info = json.loads(versions_info)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         if verbose:
             to_screen(compat_str(traceback.format_exc()))
         to_screen('ERROR: can\'t obtain versions info. Please try again later.')

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 245d623d86df365a562fb395bc792b42f68634eb..90e0ed9ab7eb36d4c9f30efffdd2868e9cfe6d47 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def preferredencoding():
     try:
         pref = locale.getpreferredencoding()
         'TEST'.encode(pref)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         pref = 'UTF-8'
 
     return pref
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def write_json_file(obj, fn):
             except OSError:
                 pass
         os.rename(tf.name, fn)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         try:
             os.remove(tf.name)
         except OSError: