On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 4:09:04 PM UTC+5:30, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:49:17 -0700, shiva upreti writes: > >Hi > >If my script hangs because of the reasons you mentioned above, why doesnt it > >catch ConnectionError? > >My script stops for a while and when I press CTRL+C, it shows > >ConnectionError without terminating the process, and the script resumes from > >where it left off. > > This is exactly what you asked it to do. :) > > >> try: > >> r=requests.post(url, data=query_args) > >> except: > >> print "Connection error" > >> time.sleep(30) > >> continue > > try to do something until you get an Exception. Since that is a > naked except, absolutely any Exception will do. That you > print out 'Connection error' doesn't mean that you are only > catching exceptions raised by trying to send something to the > other end ... any Exception will do. > > So what happens when you press Control-C? > > You get a KeyboardInterrupt exception! :) > > see: https://docs.python.org/2/library/exceptions.html > > And you are catching it :) > And when you catch it you print Connection error and keep on > trying. > > This is why people were telling you that naked try:except: pairs, > are rarely what you want. You didn't want to catch control-c but > you caught it anyway. > > Laura
Thank you. I didnt know about keyboard interrupt exception. It means my code hangs without raising any exceptions, what should i do in this case? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
