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 …

As of Python 3.11 you can take advantage of the except* clause that is used to handle multiple exceptions. PEP-654 introduced a new standard exception type called ExceptionGroup that …

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

I would recommend using a try-except statement. Also, rather than using a print statement, a logging exception logs a message with level ERROR on the logger, which I find is more …

Apr 22, 2013 · From time to time in Python, I see the block: try: try_this(whatever) except SomeException as exception: #Handle exception else: return something What is the reason …

May 28, 2020 · The Exception class is the superclass of every single built-in exception in the Python environment that are non-system-exiting (read here) and its generally a bad practice to …

Enclosing with in a try/except statement doesn't work either, and an exception is not raised. What can I do in order to process failure inside with statement in a Pythonic way?

Feb 14, 2011 · @CharlieParker you could try except BaseException as e: notify_user(e); raise that would catch all exceptions and do whatever notification you need, but I don't know HPC …

In Python 3, try/except was 25 % faster than if key in d: for cases where the key was in the dictionary. It was much slower when the key wasn't in the dictionary, as expected, and …

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 …