How to handle exceptions properly in a pythonic way?

John Gordon gordon at panix.com
Mon Nov 2 15:05:36 EST 2015


In <4b303213-62e2-42d4-b2f6-4fc1f6025944 at googlegroups.com> zljubisic at gmail.com writes:

> Let's say that I have the following simple function:

> def get_html(url):

>     wpage = requests.get(url)
>     
>     return wpage.text

> How to handle exceptions properly that can arise during execution of the
> requests.get(url)?

The best way is probably to do nothing at all, and let the caller handle
any exceptions.

-- 
John Gordon                   A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
gordon at panix.com              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
                                -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"




More information about the Python-list mailing list