# PEP 760 – No More Bare Excepts

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no-more-bare-excepts/67182>\
**Category:** PEPs\
**Created:** [October 9, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no-more-bare-excepts/67182 "2024-10-09T12:38:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-760-no-more-bare-excepts/67182/109 "2024-11-09T10:49:54Z")

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> [@ncoghlan](#):
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> A proposal to change that might have more success than this proposal did, though. Unlike bare except, I can’t recall encountering a situation where suppressing an exception via the finally clause instead of the except clause was the right thing to do.

I’ve created a follow-up discussion thread [here](https://discuss.python.org/t/an-analysis-of-return-in-finally-in-the-wild/70633).

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