[Zope] adding properties trough pythonscript

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> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 19:32 +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
>
>> > ...
>> >       try:
>> >         context.manage_addProperty('prop', 0, 'boolean')
>> >         print "prop added<br>"
>> >       except:
>> >         print "adding prop to",str(obj.id),"failed<br>"
>>
>> Do not use "try: ... except:...". It is dangerous. It can easily lead
>> to ZODB inconsistencies...
>
> not exactly good news to me....
>
> can you point out some document explaining this?

mailing list archives?

in general, don't use bare excepts; catch specific errors instead.
Or, you can use a bare except IF you re-raise it; this is handy if you
want to do some special logging or some such.

> can I raise exceptions from a python script?

sure.