I Need A Placeholder

[Duncan Booth]

Ampedesign <metalkeys404 at gmail.com> 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.
> 

Use the 'pass' statement.

But really, you should not have a bare except: if you are going to ignore a 
specific exception that's fine, but don't ignore all exceptions. You'll 
regret it.