Catch any error in Python
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26-10-2019 - |
Question
Is it possible to catch any error in Python? I don't care what the specific exceptions will be, because all of them will have the same fallback.
Solution
Using except
by itself will catch any exception short of a segfault.
try:
something()
except:
fallback()
You might want to handle KeyboardInterrupt separately in case you need to use it to exit your script:
try:
something()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
return
except:
fallback()
There's a nice list of basic exceptions you can catch here. I also quite like the traceback module for retrieving a call stack from the exception. Try traceback.format_exc()
or traceback.print_exc()
in an exception handler.
OTHER TIPS
try:
# do something
except Exception, e:
# handle it
For Python 3.x:
try:
# do something
except Exception as e:
# handle it
You might want also to look at sys.excepthook:
When an exception is raised and uncaught, the interpreter calls sys.excepthook with three arguments, the exception class, exception instance, and a traceback object. In an interactive session this happens just before control is returned to the prompt; in a Python program this happens just before the program exits. The handling of such top-level exceptions can be customized by assigning another three-argument function to sys.excepthook.
Example:
def except_hook(type, value, tback):
# manage unhandled exception here
sys.__excepthook__(type, value, tback) # then call the default handler
sys.excepthook = except_hook