Bare excepts are best avoided, this issue is to reduce their use in the stdlib. It is not the intention to blindly replace them by except BaseException:, or to religiously purge all of them, but just to review them and avoid where it's feasible to do so.

(see also #125514).

Linked PRs

• gh-125522 : add explicit exception types to bare excepts in tests #125523
• gh-125522: Fix bare except in test_math.testTan #125544
• [3.13] gh-125522: Fix bare except in test_math.testTan (GH-125544) #125726
• [3.12] gh-125522: Fix bare except in test_math.testTan (GH-125544) #125727
• gh-125522: Remove bare except in test_zlib.test_flushes #126321
• [3.13] gh-125522: Remove bare except in test_zlib.test_flushes (gh-126321) #126327
• [3.12] gh-125522: Remove bare except in test_zlib.test_flushes (gh-126321) #126328
• gh-125522: Fix bare except in test_uuid #129018
• [3.13] gh-125522: Fix bare except in test_uuid (GH-129018) #129455
• [3.12] gh-125522: Fix bare except in test_uuid (GH-129018) #129456