Unreachable except block¶
ID: py/unreachable-except
Kind: problem
Security severity:
Severity: error
Precision: very-high
Tags:
- quality
- reliability
- error-handling
- external/cwe/cwe-561
Query suites:
- python-code-quality.qls
- python-security-and-quality.qls
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When handling an exception, Python searches the except blocks in source code order until it finds a matching except block for the exception. An except block, except E:, specifies a class E and will match any exception that is an instance of E.