Why is "except: pass" a bad programming practice?

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00:38 Accepted answer (Score 438)
09:32 Answer 2 (Score 277)
10:09 Answer 3 (Score 88)
10:30 Answer 4 (Score 58)
14:16 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2155...

Accepted answer links:
[ValueError]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/excepti...
[FileNotFoundError]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/excepti...
[IsADirectoryError]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/excepti...
[PermissionError]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/excepti...
[Python 2 idioms]: http://docs.python.org/2/howto/doanddont...
[NameError]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/excepti...
[SyntaxError]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/excepti...
[SystemError]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/excepti...
[Exception]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/excepti...

Answer 4 links:
[Older]: https://bugs.python.org/issue7391
[documentation say]: https://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/doandd...
[exception hierarchy]: https://docs.python.org/library/exceptio...

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