It is commonly known that catching broad exceptions, such as Exception in a try...except block leads to issues around catching exceptions that should not have been caught and then are not handled correctly in the except block. A related issue is encapsulating too much code in a try...except block which can lead to catching exceptions on unexpected lines of code. This post provides an example where an except block unexpectedly catches an exception and gives an example for how to avoid the issue.

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