title: Why is "except: pass" a bad programming practice?
body: <p>I often see comments on other Stack Overflow questions about how the use of <code>except: pass</code> is discouraged. Why is this bad? Sometimes I just don't care what the errors are and I want to just continue with the code.</p>
  <pre><code>try:
      something
  except:
      pass
  </code></pre>
  <p>Why is using an <code>except: pass</code> block bad? What makes it bad? Is it the fact that I <code>pass</code> on an error or that I <code>except</code> any error?</p>