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Why is “except: pass” a bad programming practice?

August 22, 2022 by Magenaut

I often see comments on other Stack Overflow questions about how the use of except: pass 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.

Categories Python, Q&A Tags error-handling, exception, python, try-catch Leave a comment

How to catch and print the full exception traceback without halting/exiting the program?

August 21, 2022 by Magenaut

I want to catch and log exceptions without exiting, e.g.,

Categories Python, Q&A Tags exception, python, traceback, try-catch Leave a comment

Is it a good practice to use try-except-else in Python?

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

From time to time in Python, I see the block:

Categories Python, Q&A Tags exception, exception-handling, python, try-catch Leave a comment

Better to ‘try’ something and catch the exception or test if it’s possible first to avoid an exception?

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

Should I test if something is valid or just try to do it and catch the exception?

Categories Python, Q&A Tags exception-handling, if-statement, pep, python, try-catch Leave a comment

Capture keyboardinterrupt in Python without try-except

August 18, 2022 by Magenaut

Is there some way in Python to capture KeyboardInterrupt event without putting all the code inside a try–except statement?

Categories Python, Q&A Tags keyboardinterrupt, python, try-catch Leave a comment
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