Question

Is there some way to have several consecutive Try-Except clauses that trigger a single Else only if all of them are successful?

As an example:

 try:
    private.anodization_voltage_meter = Voltmeter(voltage_meter_address.value) #assign voltmeter location
except(visa.VisaIOError): #channel time out
    private.logger.warning('Volt Meter is not on or not on this channel')
try:
    private.anodization_current_meter = Voltmeter(current_meter_address.value) #assign voltmeter as current meter location
except(visa.VisaIOError): #channel time out
    private.logger.warning('Ammeter is not on or not on this channel')
try:
    private.sample_thermometer = Voltmeter(sample_thermometer_address.value)#assign voltmeter as thermomter location for sample.
except(visa.VisaIOError): #channel time out
    private.logger.warning('Sample Thermometer is not on or not on this channel')
try:
    private.heater_thermometer = Voltmeter(heater_thermometer_address.value)#assign voltmeter as thermomter location for heater.
except(visa.VisaIOError): #channel time out
    private.logger.warning('Heater Thermometer is not on or not on this channel')
else:
    private.logger.info('Meters initialized')

As you can see, you only want to print meters initialized if all of them went off, however as currently written it only depends on the heater thermometer. is there some way to stack these?

Answer 1

You can keep a boolean, initialized at the beginning to: everythingOK=True
Then set it to False in all the except blocks and log the final line only if true.