Comment a particularly egregious example of message passing

samuelharmer · Dec 3, 2019 · 8fd7385 · 8fd7385
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diff --git a/paramiko/pkey.py b/paramiko/pkey.py
@@ -515,6 +515,9 @@ def _uint32_cstruct_unpack(self, data, strformat):
                     arr.append(s)
                     break
         except Exception as e:
+            # PKey-consuming code frequently wants to save-and-skip-over issues
+            # with loading keys, and uses SSHException as the (really friggin
+            # awful) signal for this. So for now...we do this.
             raise SSHException(str(e))
         return tuple(arr)