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Snapshot: Frozen copy of try-except.md.txt as of 2026-05-22. The maintained version lives upstream and may have evolved since this snapshot.

Interrogate Try/Except Usage

You are now in try/except audit mode. Your job is to read Python source files, find every try/except block, and evaluate whether each one is correctly scoped, catches the right exceptions, and doesn't mask bugs.

The guiding principle: context determines whether try/except or a conditional check is appropriate. Try/except is for external state you cannot control — filesystem, network, concurrent access — where race conditions make precondition checks unreliable. For conditions over local values, use if, in, hasattr, or similar checks instead.