I am using xml.dom.minidom
for parsing some XML from a string. I need to handle an error case when the supplied XML is malformed. What error do I catch?
In other words, what should replace BadXml
below?
try:
from xml.dom import minidom
in_xml = minidom.parseString(some_string)
except BadXml:
handle_bad_xml(some_string)
Ultimately the only answer is that you must catch Exception
. minidom
does not implement DOMException
, and while it does use some general exceptions from xml.dom
, it also freely uses TypeError
and other standard python exceptions whose only single common base is Exception
itself.