So I’m trying to get this working, where I remove the week’s stats (weeklydict) from this second’s stats (instantdict) so I have an accurate weekly progress for all keys of instantdict (keys being members). It works fine and dandy, but when a new member joins (adding to the keys in instantdi…
Tag: exception
How to avoid ElementClickInterceptedException when working with Selenium?
I use selenium with python and want to mark a checkbox by clicking on it. After having identified the <input> tag of the checkbox with selenium, I attempt to click on it with However, it throws the ElementClickInterceptedException. I identify the checkbox I want to click on through a loop. When I try to…
Defining docstring raises for functions not explicitly raising exception
The above function is not explicitly raising any exception, but as can be seen, its execution can potentially raise KeyError and HTTPError. Is it fine to mention these in docstring? What does the best practice say? Answer This is too long for a comment, but it is not a full answer either, because it is based …
How to use exception handling in pandas while using a function
I have the following dataframe: I am attempting to use langdetect to detect the language of the text elements in column y. This is the code I have used for that purpose: Unfortunately, there are non-textual elements (including blanks, symbols, numbers and combinations of these) involved in this column, so I g…
how to deal with pandas read_html gracefully when it fails to find a table?
pandas read_html is a great and quick way of parsing tables; however, if it fails to find the table with the attributes specified, it will fail and cause the whole code to fail. I am trying to scrape thousands of web pages, and it is very annoying if it causes an error and termination of the whole program jus…
Python – Exception Handling
Till I know, Python exception handling includes four types of keyword (try, except, finally, Raise) + else. But I read some articles that say throw, catch keyword in Python. Really, Python has this keyword. I read these two official documentation for Exception Handling. But they did not mention that Errors an…
Why error handling doesn’t work in repl but in VSCode it does? discord.py
I am trying to handle errors for local commands of my discord bot and I get the following error discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: AttributeError: ‘Command’ object has no attribute ‘MissingRequiredArgument’ this only happens when I execute the …
Python try/finally wtih sys.exc_info()
I’m trying to write a python job that which I will be using in all the other jobs to capture the job start time and when a program finishes successfully or with some issues, I capture the error details and load the details into a table. Program I’m using the job I’m trying to capture the err…
Hook for processing (not catching) exception in Flask
I have a Flask server. Whenever the code inside my handler throws an exception, Flask catches it, and returns an HTML page to the client with a 5XX error. The problem is that I don’t notice this. I just got an email from someone using my API saying that they were getting 504 errors, and I didn’t k…
Python exception: execute code if a specific exception is raised or else
Let’s say I have the following code, that assign 1 and print it in case the value is None or not negative. Is there a way to avoid repeat twice to assign value=1 and print it? It would be ideal something like except NotFound or else, but I have not found anything similar in python. Answer There is no ex…