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Pythonic way to catch all exceptions from a module?

I am trying to do some refactoring using rope package. Depending on the code, it might throw exceptions and there are more than 10 rope exceptions.

I dont want to do 

from rope.base.exceptions import *

try:
    # do something
except (AttributeNotFoundError, ModuleDecodeError,
        ..., ..., ..., RefactoringError) as e:
     # do something else

I just want to catch all rope exceptions, something like this

import rope

try:
    # do something
except rope.base.exceptions.*:
    # do something else

How to catch all exceptions from a specific module?

Solution

  • Just catch the base of all of the exceptions:

    In [5]: import rope.base.exceptions as rbe
In [6]: try:
   ...:     raise rbe.AttributeNotFoundError
   ...: except rbe.RopeError, e:
   ...:     print "RopeError -", e
   ...:

RopeError!