Cathing several potential errors?

[Gary Josack]

cnb wrote:
> if i do
> try:
>     something
> except TypeError, IndexError:
>     pass
>
> only the first error will get caught. I dont want to use Exception and
> catch all errors, but just 2. how can i do that?
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what you're doing is assigning the value of TypeError to the name IndexError

try:
  somthing
except (TypeError, IndexError):
  pass

use

except (TypeError, IndexError), e:
  print e

if you want to print the error