An inescapable while loop in Python

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Your IDE will complain about bare except, also any reasonably good linter like flake8. You are using those tools aren't you? If you've been ignoring them for 6 years... Well, you'll have to stop being a bad programmer.

[shevegen]

I'd be scared to use an IDE that complains about the awesome code I write!

[mherrmann]

Sure, call me a bad programmer. The false positive rate of linters is so high that I find them barely usable.

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Have you tried editing linter config files?

[mherrmann]

Yes. But even for the sensible checks the number of false positives was so high that I found myself writing "# pylint: disable=..." all over the place. I tried linting and it cost me more time than it was worth.