Progress on pandas-dev#18419

doc/source/conf.py

@@ -565,19 +565,19 @@ def linkcode_resolve(domain, info):
     for part in fullname.split('.'):
         try:
             obj = getattr(obj, part)
-        except:
+        except AttributeError:
             return None
 
     try:
         fn = inspect.getsourcefile(obj)
-    except:
+    except TypeError:
         fn = None
     if not fn:
         return None
 
     try:
         source, lineno = inspect.getsourcelines(obj)
-    except:
+    except OSError:
         lineno = None
 
     if lineno:

pandas/compat/pickle_compat.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def load_reduce(self):
                 cls = args[0]
                 stack[-1] = object.__new__(cls)
                 return
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 pass
 
         # try to re-encode the arguments
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def load_reduce(self):
             try:
                 stack[-1] = func(*args)
                 return
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 pass
 
         # unknown exception, re-raise
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ def load_newobj_ex(self):
 
 try:
     Unpickler.dispatch[pkl.NEWOBJ_EX[0]] = load_newobj_ex
-except:
+except Exception:
     pass
 
 
@@ -200,15 +200,11 @@ def load(fh, encoding=None, compat=False, is_verbose=False):
     compat: provide Series compatibility mode, boolean, default False
     is_verbose: show exception output
     """
+    fh.seek(0)
+    if encoding is not None:
+        up = Unpickler(fh, encoding=encoding)
+    else:
+        up = Unpickler(fh)
+    up.is_verbose = is_verbose
 
-    try:
-        fh.seek(0)
-        if encoding is not None:
-            up = Unpickler(fh, encoding=encoding)
-        else:
-            up = Unpickler(fh)
-        up.is_verbose = is_verbose
-
-        return up.load()
-    except:
-        raise
+    return up.load()

pandas/core/frame.py

@@ -3187,7 +3187,7 @@ def _ensure_valid_index(self, value):
         if not len(self.index) and is_list_like(value):
             try:
                 value = Series(value)
-            except:
+            except ValueError:
                 raise ValueError('Cannot set a frame with no defined index '
                                  'and a value that cannot be converted to a '
                                  'Series')
@@ -7621,7 +7621,7 @@ def convert(v):
                 values = np.array([convert(v) for v in values])
             else:
                 values = convert(values)
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             values = convert(values)
 
     else:

pandas/core/indexing.py

@@ -2146,7 +2146,7 @@ def _getitem_tuple(self, tup):
         self._has_valid_tuple(tup)
         try:
             return self._getitem_lowerdim(tup)
-        except:
+        except IndexingError:
             pass
 
         retval = self.obj
@@ -2705,13 +2705,13 @@ def maybe_droplevels(index, key):
         for _ in key:
             try:
                 index = index.droplevel(0)
-            except:
+            except ValueError:
                 # we have dropped too much, so back out
                 return original_index
     else:
         try:
             index = index.droplevel(0)
-        except:
+        except ValueError:
             pass
 
     return index

pandas/core/nanops.py

@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ def reduction(values, axis=None, skipna=True):
             try:
                 result = getattr(values, meth)(axis, dtype=dtype_max)
                 result.fill(np.nan)
-            except:
+            except AttributeError:
                 result = np.nan
         else:
             result = getattr(values, meth)(axis)

pandas/util/_print_versions.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def get_sys_info():
                                     stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                     stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
             so, serr = pipe.communicate()
-        except:
+        except ValueError:
             pass
         else:
             if pipe.returncode == 0:
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def get_sys_info():
             ("LANG", "{lang}".format(lang=os.environ.get('LANG', "None"))),
             ("LOCALE", '.'.join(map(str, locale.getlocale()))),
         ])
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         pass
 
     return blob
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def show_versions(as_json=False):
                 mod = importlib.import_module(modname)
             ver = ver_f(mod)
             deps_blob.append((modname, ver))
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             deps_blob.append((modname, None))
 
     if (as_json):

pandas/util/_validators.py

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def _check_for_default_values(fname, arg_val_dict, compat_args):
 
         # could not compare them directly, so try comparison
         # using the 'is' operator
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             match = (arg_val_dict[key] is compat_args[key])
 
         if not match: