Question

I got many lines in a row which may throw an exception, but no matter what, it should still continue the next line. How to do this without individually try catching every single statement that may throw an exception?

try:
    this_may_cause_an_exception()
    but_I_still_wanna_run_this()
    and_this()
    and_also_this()
except Exception, e:
    logging.exception('An error maybe occured in one of first occuring functions causing the others not to be executed. Locals: {locals}'.format(locals=locals()))

Let’s see above code, all functions may throw exceptions, but it should still execute the next functions no matter if it threw an exception or not. Is there a nice way of doing that?

I dont wanna do this:

try:
    this_may_cause_an_exception()
except:
    pass
try:
    but_I_still_wanna_run_this()
except:
    pass
try:
    and_this()
except:
    pass
try:
    and_also_this()
except:
    pass

I think code should still continue to run after an exception only if the exception is critical (The computer will burn or the whole system will get messed up, it should stop the whole program, but for many small things also exceptions are thrown such as connection failed etc.)
I normally don’t have any problems with exception handling, but in this case I’m using a 3rd party library which easily throws exceptions for small things.

After looking at m4spy’s answer, i thought wouldn’t it be possible, to have a decorator which will let every line in the function execute even if one of them raises an exception.

Something like this would be cool:

def silent_log_exceptions(func):
    @wraps(func)
    def _wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        try:
            func(*args, **kwargs)
        except Exception:
            logging.exception('...')
            some_special_python_keyword # which causes it to continue executing the next line
    return _wrapper

Or something like this:

def silent_log_exceptions(func):
    @wraps(func)
    def _wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        for line in func(*args, **kwargs):
            try:
                exec line
            except Exception:
                logging.exception('...')
    return _wrapper



@silent_log_exceptions
def save_tweets():
    a = requests.get('http://twitter.com)
    x = parse(a)
    bla = x * x

Answer 1

for func in [this_may_cause_an_exception,
             but_I_still_wanna_run_this,
             and_this,
             and_also_this]:
    try:
        func()
    except:
        pass

There are two things to notice here:

• All actions you want to perform have to represented by callables with the same signature (in the example, callables that take no arguments). If they aren’t already, wrap them in small functions, lambda expressions, callable classes, etc.
• Bare except clauses are a bad idea, but you probably already knew that.

An alternative approach, that is more flexible, is to use a higher-order function like

def logging_exceptions(f, *args, **kwargs):
    try:
        f(*args, **kwargs)
    except Exception as e:
        print("Houston, we have a problem: {0}".format(e))