Make stem catch explicit Exception classes

dmcdougall · dmcdougall · commit 94f640e2422e · 2012-11-16T22:21:27.000-06:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
@@ -5115,7 +5115,7 @@ def stem(self, *args, **kwargs):
             second = np.asarray(args[0], dtype=np.float)
             x, y = y, second
             args = args[1:]
-        except:
+        except (IndexError, ValueError):
             # The second array doesn't make sense, or it doesn't exist
             second = np.arange(len(y))
             x = second
