I Need A Placeholder

[Daniel Mahoney]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:03:47 -0700, Ampedesign wrote:

> I'm trying to build a try/except case, and I want to have the except
> function like such:
> 
> try:
>       # Do some code here
>       var = 1         # For example
> except:
>       #Do nothing here
> 
> The only problem is if I leave a comment only in the except block, I
> get an error back saying that the except block is not properly
> formatted, since it has no content other than a comment.
> 
> So if anyone could suggest some code to put there as a placeholder
> that would be wonderful.

"pass" would work fine.

try:
     # Do something that can throw an exception
except:
     pass