CSP-L002: Bare Except¶

Category: Best Practices

Severity: LOW

Description¶

A bare except catches SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt and can hide real failures. Catch specific exceptions instead.

Vulnerable Code Example¶

try:
    do_work()
except:
    pass

Safer Code Example¶

try:
    do_work()
except (ValueError, IOError) as exc:
    handle_error(exc)

How to Suppress a Finding¶

# ignore
# or
# noqa: CSP-L002