Path: csiph.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!panix!gordon From: John Gordon Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: How to handle exceptions properly in a pythonic way? Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <4b303213-62e2-42d4-b2f6-4fc1f6025944@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1446494736 25190 166.84.1.1 (2 Nov 2015 20:05:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:05:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:98116 In <4b303213-62e2-42d4-b2f6-4fc1f6025944@googlegroups.com> zljubisic@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@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"