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# Remove Redundant Except Handler

#### Sourcery refactoring id: `remove-redundant-except-handler`

#### Description:

Removes exception handlers that can never trigger (as the exceptions have
already been caught)

#### Before:

```python
try:
    pass
except Exception:
    do_x()
except ValueError:
    do_y()
finally:
    do_t()
```

#### After:

```python
try:
    pass
except Exception:
    do_x()
finally:
    do_t()
```

#### Explanation:

Currently only one except handler can be triggered for any exception raised in
Python. This means that if an exception is already caught, subsequent handlers
can never have an effect on it. Having them present is confusing, since the
reader may think that this exception handling code is behaving as expected, when
in fact it is redundant.

#### Related Rules

- [merge-except-handler](/reference/refactorings/python/merge-except-handler/) to merge except handlers with
  the same content
- [remove-redundant-exception](/reference/refactorings/python/remove-redundant-exception/) to clean up the
  tuple of an except clause
- [use-contextlib-suppress](/reference/refactorings/python/use-contextlib-suppress/) instead of empty
  `except` blocks
- [do-not-use-bare-except](/reference/refactorings/python/do-not-use-bare-except/) to always specify which
  errors an `except` block is handling