Python 2.x gotchas and landmines

Question

The purpose of my question is to strengthen my knowledge base with Python and get a better picture of it, which includes knowing its faults and surprises. To keep things sp

Answer 1

try:
    int("z")
except IndexError, ValueError:
    pass

reason this doesn't work is because IndexError is the type of exception you're catching, and ValueError is the name of the variable you're assigning the exception to.

Correct code to catch multiple exceptions is:

try:
    int("z")
except (IndexError, ValueError):
    pass