E722 (bare except) not reported.

Flake8 installed via pip install flake8 inside a Python2.7 virtual environment.

Output of flake8 --bug-report:

{
  "dependencies": [
    {
      "dependency": "setuptools", 
      "version": "36.2.7"
    }
  ], 
  "platform": {
    "python_implementation": "CPython", 
    "python_version": "2.7.13", 
    "system": "Linux"
  }, 
  "plugins": [
    {
      "plugin": "mccabe", 
      "version": "0.6.1"
    }, 
    {
      "plugin": "naming", 
      "version": "0.4.1"
    }, 
    {
      "plugin": "pycodestyle", 
      "version": "2.3.1"
    }, 
    {
      "plugin": "pyflakes", 
      "version": "1.5.0"
    }
  ], 
  "version": "3.4.1"
}

When flake8 is run without arguments, and with no configuration file present, on the following file...

#!/usr/bin/env python2

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        print "Never raises exception"
    except:
        print "Bare exception handler"

...no errors, warnings, or violations are reported, even though pycodestyle reports the bare exception handler:

bare-except.py:6:5: E722 do not use bare except'

changed title from E722 (bare {-except-}) not reported. to E722 (bare except) not reported.

changed milestone to %3.5.0

Nice catch! I have a fix for this ready for 3.5.0 since it enables some new checks and I don't want those turning on for folks in a patch release.

added bug:confirmed component:pycodestyle labels

mentioned in merge request !199 (merged)

closed via merge request !199 (merged)