Sunday, 16 December 2018

python - Catch multiple exceptions in one line (except block)



I know that I can do:



try:
# do something that may fail

except:
# do this if ANYTHING goes wrong


I can also do this:



try:
# do something that may fail
except IDontLikeYouException:
# say please

except YouAreTooShortException:
# stand on a ladder


But if I want to do the same thing inside two different exceptions, the best I can think of right now is to do this:



try:
# do something that may fail
except IDontLikeYouException:
# say please

except YouAreBeingMeanException:
# say please


Is there any way that I can do something like this (since the action to take in both exceptions is to say please):



try:
# do something that may fail
except IDontLikeYouException, YouAreBeingMeanException:
# say please



Now this really won't work, as it matches the syntax for:



try:
# do something that may fail
except Exception, e:
# say please



So, my effort to catch the two distinct exceptions doesn't exactly come through.



Is there a way to do this?


Answer



From Python Documentation:




An except clause may name multiple exceptions as a parenthesized tuple, for example





except (IDontLikeYouException, YouAreBeingMeanException) as e:
pass


Or, for Python 2 only:



except (IDontLikeYouException, YouAreBeingMeanException), e:
pass



Separating the exception from the variable with a comma will still work in Python 2.6 and 2.7, but is now deprecated and does not work in Python 3; now you should be using as.


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