Except block throwing SyntaxError

Question

I am getting a syntax error for the except I read a lot of other answers, and i tried commenting out everything but the while loop to make sure it wasn't something else. Not sure what's up.

from timeit import default_timer

start = default_timer()

while True:
    print('a')
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        break
print(default_timer() - start)

Answer 1

You have no accompanying try statement with your exception catch

from timeit import default_timer

start = default_timer()

while True:
    try:
        print('a')
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        break
print(default_timer() - start)

Here are the docs on handling exceptions