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[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/12/16 Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>:
>> Whoops. That's not how to catch multiple exception types
>> <URL:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html#handling-exceptions>,
>> but it's a common mistake, and for that reason it iss invalid in Python
>> 3 <URL:http://docs.python.org/3.1/reference/compound_stmts.html#except>.
> 
> spoiler. :]
> 

We actually had that problem in bzr-svn, which ended up causing a
base-level exception class to get broken. I forget the specifics, but I
think it was if you didn't have sqlite installed it would overwrite one
of the transport errors, and all sorts of things went crazy.

John
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