Are nested try...except statements considered to be bad programming practice? As a little background I am reading a file using multiple one wire temperature sensors, so there are quite a number of potential errors, no subdirectory, no file, no contents in the file, garbage in the file, plus probably a few more I hadn't thought of. I would really like to know which type of error the read generated, which is why I nested several try...except loops. So the program works, but looks ungainly. Continue reading...