python: Fix remaining bare excepts in codebase.

Fixes #2862.

api/integrations/google/google-calendar

@@ -195,6 +195,6 @@ for i in itertools.count():
         if not i % 10:
             populate_events()
         send_reminders()
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         logging.exception("Couldn't download Google calendar and/or couldn't post to Zulip.")
     time.sleep(60)

bots/jabber_mirror_backend.py

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ class ZulipToJabberBot(object):
                     self.stream_message(message)
                 elif message['type'] == 'private':
                     self.private_message(message)
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 logging.exception("Exception forwarding Zulip => Jabber")
         elif event['type'] == 'subscription':
             self.process_subscription(event)

tools/compile-handlebars-templates

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def run_forever():
                 run()
                 remove_error_stamp_file(error_file_path)
                 print('done')
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 add_error_stamp_file(error_file_path)
                 print('\n\n\n\033[91mPLEASE FIX!!\033[0m\n\n')
 

tools/create-test-api-docs

@@ -45,15 +45,15 @@ def encode_info(info):
         try:
             info = ujson.loads(info)
             result = '(stringified)\n'
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             pass
         result += cgi.escape(pprint.pformat(info, indent=4))
         return '<pre>' + result + '</pre>'
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         pass
     try:
         return cgi.escape(str(info))
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         pass
     return 'NOT ENCODABLE'
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def create_single_page(pattern, out_dir, href, calls):
             f.write('<div class="test">')
             try:
                 f.write(call['url'])
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 f.write(call['url'].encode('utf8'))
             f.write('<br>\n')
             f.write(call['method'] + '<br>\n')

tools/lib/test_server.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def server_is_up(server, log_file):
     try:
         # We could get a 501 error if the reverse proxy is up but the Django app isn't.
         return requests.get('http://127.0.0.1:9981/accounts/home').status_code == 200
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         return False
 
 @contextmanager

tools/review

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def review_pr():
     # type: () -> None
     try:
         pull_id = int(sys.argv[1])
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         exit('please provide an integer pull request id')
 
     ensure_on_clean_master()

tools/run-dev.py

@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ try:
     for s in (signal.SIGINT, signal.SIGTERM):
         signal.signal(s, shutdown_handler)
     ioloop.start()
-except:
+except Exception:
     # Print the traceback before we get SIGTERM and die.
     traceback.print_exc()
     raise

zerver/lib/actions.py

@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ def compute_mit_user_fullname(email):
             return match_user.group(1).lower() + "@" + match_user.group(2).upper()[1:]
     except DNS.Base.ServerError:
         pass
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         print("Error getting fullname for %s:" % (email,))
         traceback.print_exc()
     return email.lower()

zerver/lib/bugdown/__init__.py

@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ def fetch_open_graph_image(url):
     # TODO: What if response content is huge? Should we get headers first?
     try:
         content = requests.get(url, timeout=1).text
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         return None
 
     # Extract the head and meta tags
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ class InlineInterestingLinkProcessor(markdown.treeprocessors.Treeprocessor):
                 img.set('src', media_url)
 
             return tweet
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             # We put this in its own try-except because it requires external
             # connectivity. If Twitter flakes out, we don't want to not-render
             # the entire message; we just want to not show the Twitter preview.
@@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ def do_convert(content, message=None, message_realm=None, possible_words=None, s
         # Sometimes Python-Markdown is really slow; see
         # https://trac.zulip.net/ticket/345
         return timeout(5, _md_engine.convert, content)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         from zerver.lib.actions import internal_send_message
         from zerver.models import get_user_profile_by_email
 

zerver/lib/logging_util.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class _RateLimitFilter(object):
             try:
                 cache.set('RLF_TEST_KEY', 1, 1)
                 use_cache = cache.get('RLF_TEST_KEY') == 1
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 use_cache = False
 
             if use_cache:

zerver/lib/request.py

@@ -146,14 +146,14 @@ def has_request_variables(view_func):
                     val = param.converter(val)
                 except JsonableError:
                     raise
-                except:
+                except Exception:
                     raise RequestVariableConversionError(param.post_var_name, val)
 
             # Validators are like converters, but they don't handle JSON parsing; we do.
             if param.validator is not None and not default_assigned:
                 try:
                     val = ujson.loads(val)
-                except:
+                except Exception:
                     raise JsonableError(_('argument "%s" is not valid json.') % (param.post_var_name,))
 
                 error = param.validator(param.post_var_name, val)

zerver/management/commands/check_redis.py

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         user_id = int(key.split(':')[1])
         try:
             user = get_user_profile_by_id(user_id)
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             user = None
         max_calls = max_api_calls(user=user)
 

zerver/management/commands/rate_limit.py

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         else:
             try:
                 user_profile = UserProfile.objects.get(api_key=options['api_key'])
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 print("Unable to get user profile for api key %s" % (options['api_key'],))
                 exit(1)
 

zerver/tornado/handlers.py

@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ class AsyncDjangoHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler, base.BaseHandler):
                     try:
                         callback, param_dict = resolver.resolve404()
                         response = callback(request, **param_dict)
-                    except:
+                    except Exception:
                         try:
                             response = self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver,
                                                                       sys.exc_info())
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ class AsyncDjangoHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler, base.BaseHandler):
                 try:
                     callback, param_dict = resolver.resolve403()
                     response = callback(request, **param_dict)
-                except:
+                except Exception:
                     try:
                         response = self.handle_uncaught_exception(request,
                                                                   resolver, sys.exc_info())
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ class AsyncDjangoHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler, base.BaseHandler):
                 response = middleware_method(request, response)
             if hasattr(self, 'apply_response_fixes'):
                 response = self.apply_response_fixes(request, response)
-        except:  # Any exception should be gathered and handled
+        except Exception:  # Any exception should be gathered and handled
             signals.got_request_exception.send(sender=self.__class__, request=request)
             response = self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, sys.exc_info())
 

zerver/tornado/ioloop_logging.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ try:
     def instrument_tornado_ioloop():
         # type: () -> None
         ioloop._poll = InstrumentedPoll # type: ignore # cross-version type variation is hard for mypy
-except:
+except Exception:
     # Tornado 3
     from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop, PollIOLoop
     # There isn't a good way to get at what the underlying poll implementation

zerver/webhooks/pagerduty/view.py

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def api_pagerduty_webhook(request, user_profile, client, payload=REQ(argument_ty
 
         try:
             format_dict = build_pagerduty_formatdict(message)
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             send_raw_pagerduty_json(user_profile, client, stream, message, topic)
         else:
             send_formated_pagerduty(user_profile, client, stream, message_type, format_dict, topic)

zerver/webhooks/pivotal/view.py

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def api_pivotal_webhook(request, user_profile, client, stream=REQ()):
         subject, content = api_pivotal_webhook_v3(request, user_profile, stream)
     except AttributeError:
         return json_error(_("Failed to extract data from Pivotal XML response"))
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         # Attempt to parse v5 JSON payload
         try:
             subject, content = api_pivotal_webhook_v5(request, user_profile, stream)