Python: One Try Multiple Except

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Track title: CC G Dvoks String Quartet No 12 Ame 2

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00:00 Question
00:23 Accepted answer (Score 545)
01:07 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6095...

Accepted answer links:
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.h...
[Catch multiple exceptions in one line (except block)]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470...

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#python #syntax #exceptionhandling

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 579

Yes, it is possible.

try:
   ...
except FirstException:
   handle_first_one()

except SecondException:
   handle_second_one()

except (ThirdException, FourthException, FifthException) as e:
   handle_either_of_3rd_4th_or_5th()

except Exception:
   handle_all_other_exceptions()

See: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html

The "as" keyword is used to assign the error to a variable so that the error can be investigated more thoroughly later on in the code. Also note that the parentheses for the triple exception case are needed in python 3. This page has more info: Catch multiple exceptions in one line (except block)

ANSWER 2

Score 0

Nested try except could work too.

I found the above solution was hard to implement and I just had a single extra exception.

try:
    1/0
except:
    try:
        1/0
    except:
        1/1