Question

I am checking emails against two lists — a list of domains and a list of individual emails.
How would I construct the following try statement —

Try: 'email in email_list'

Except DoesNotExist: 'domain in domain list' # if email not found

Except DoesNotExist: 'print error message'   # if both email and domain not found

What syntax do I need to use to construct this statement?

Answer 1

It sounds like you’re looking for something like:

if email in email_list:
    # do something with email
elif domain in domain_list:
    # do something with domain
else:
    print "neither email nor domain found"

There is probably no need for exceptions in this case.