Python ignore all errors and continue running

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Is there any way to run .py script and if it occurs an error, to just restart it or continue. Right now if there's an error the script will stop running.

@opengl, if it did not work you did not use it correctly. Catch any possible exceptions and restart the script — Padraic Cunningham, Jul 18 '15 at 13:09
You may also find [`fuckit`](https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy) helpful — jonrsharpe, Jul 18 '15 at 13:29
I would also recommend [logging.exception](https://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html#logging.exception) , so you can figure out what the bleep happened later. — NightShadeQueen, Jul 18 '15 at 15:18

Holloway · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-18T13:12:06.973

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You can catch errors and ignore them (if it makes sense). eg if the call foo.bar() could cause an error use

try:
    foo.bar()
except: #catch everything, should generally be avoided.
    #what should happen when an error occurs

If you only want to ignore a certain type of error use (recommended) (python 2)

try:
    foo.bar()
except <ERROR TO IGNORE>, e:
    #what should happen when an error occurs

or (python 3)

try:
    foo.bar()
except <ERROR TO IGNORE> as e:
    #what should happen when an error occurs

See the Python documentation on handling exceptions for more information.

edited Jul 18 '15 at 13:12

answered Jul 18 '15 at 13:06

Holloway

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Note that the Python documentation warns: "The last except clause may omit the exception name(s), to serve as a wildcard. Use this with extreme caution, since it is easy to mask a real programming error in this way!" – tsroten Jul 18 '15 at 13:11
@tsroten, true, added in comments to that effect – Holloway Jul 18 '15 at 13:12
@tsroten, not sure what happened to your edit, added in as well – Holloway Jul 18 '15 at 13:14
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/53575187/3140992 for quickly ignoring multiple commands, thanks to @jonrsharpe – citynorman Dec 01 '18 at 21:24

Python ignore all errors and continue running

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