I Need A Placeholder

[Ampedesign]

I'm trying to build a try/except case, and I want to have the except
function like such:

try:
# Do some code here
var = 1 # For example
except:
#Do nothing here

The only problem is if I leave a comment only in the except block, I
get an error back saying that the except block is not properly
formatted, since it has no content other than a comment.

So if anyone could suggest some code to put there as a placeholder
that would be wonderful.

 

[Daniel Mahoney]

I'm trying to build a try/except case, and I want to have the except
function like such:

try:
# Do some code here
var = 1 # For example
except:
#Do nothing here

The only problem is if I leave a comment only in the except block, I
get an error back saying that the except block is not properly
formatted, since it has no content other than a comment.

So if anyone could suggest some code to put there as a placeholder
that would be wonderful.

"pass" would work fine.

try:
# Do something that can throw an exception
except:
pass

 

[Ampedesign]

"pass" would work fine.

try:
     # Do something that can throw an exception
except:
     pass

Thanks. That will work perfectly.

 

[Gary Herron]

I'm trying to build a try/except case, and I want to have the except
function like such:

try:
# Do some code here
var = 1 # For example
except:
#Do nothing here

try:
# Do some code here
var = 1 # For example
except:
pass



Gary Herron

 

[Ampedesign]

Use the 'pass' statement.

But really, you should not have a bare except: if you are going to ignore a
specific exception that's fine, but don't ignore all exceptions. You'll
regret it.

This is true. Though I get a wide range of exceptions since I'm
downloading and parsing a file. I will get everything from a socket
error to an empty xml element.

In the future however, I will make separate exceptions.

 

[Joshua Kugler]

I'm trying to build a try/except case, and I want to have the except
function like such:

try:
# Do some code here
var = 1 # For example
except:
#Do nothing here

The only problem is if I leave a comment only in the except block, I
get an error back saying that the except block is not properly
formatted, since it has no content other than a comment.

So if anyone could suggest some code to put there as a placeholder
that would be wonderful.

except:
pass

is the usual technique there.

j

 

[John Salerno]

except:
pass

is the usual technique there.

Is there any other?

 

[Carsten Haese]

Is there any other?

Sure. Evaluating any side-effect free expression and ignoring the result
will work:

try:
# do somthing
except:
None

try:
# do something
except:
"I don't care about the exception."

Of course, using pass *is* the preferred method.

 

[Peter Otten]

Is there any other?

if 0: 42

Proof:
True



Peter

 

[John Salerno]

if 0: 42

How Pythonic. ;-)