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Does a exception with just a raise have any use?
Is there any value to re-raising an exception with no other code in between?
try:
#code
except Exception:
raise
I was recently looking through some code and saw a few blocks like these with nothing extra in the except block but another raise. I assume this was a mistake and poor decision making, am I right?
I’ve seen similar code before in a (set of) horrible VB.NET projects. Either the intent was to catch and log exceptions, without ever coming back to finish the logging, or they heard “you must catch exceptions”, implemented this functionality, and someone else decided it should just re-raise.
There is no benefit to the above code.