Apr 22, 2013 · In the Python world, using exceptions for flow control is common and normal. -- I think it's worth drawing a distinction between "the Python world" and "the CPython core devs …

May 12, 2019 · When you just want to do a try-except without handling the exception, how do you do it in Python? Is the following the right way to do it? try: shutil.rmtree(path) except: pass

If try-except-finally is nested inside a finally block, the result from "child" finally is preserved. I have not found an official explanation yet, but the following code snippet shows this behavior in …

It's perfectly OK (and "pythonic") to use try/except for flow control, but it makes sense most when Exception s are actually exceptional. From the Python docs: EAFP Easier to ask for …

Dive into python has an example where, if I understand correctly, in try block they try to import a module, when that fails you get exception and bind default but when it works you have an …

The answers to this question should probably be updated to include usage of the pathlib module, which makes this problem a lot easier, and should probably be standard Python practice …

From Python documentation -> 8.3 Handling Exceptions: A try statement may have more than one except clause, to specify handlers for different exceptions. At most one handler will be …

No, you cannot do that. That's just the way Python has its syntax. Once you exit a try-block because of an exception, there is no way back in. What about a for-loop though? funcs = …

The advantage of except Exception over the bare except is that there are a few exceptions that it wont catch, most obviously KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit: if you caught and swallowed …

I have a problem with my code in the try block. To make it easy this is my code: try: code a code b #if b fails, it should ignore, and go to c. code c #if c fails, go to d code d e...