Python: Continue looping after exception

Question

I have the following script (below). which will return the status code of URLs. It loops through a file and tries to connect to each host. Only problem is that it obviously stop

Answer 1

You could handle the exception where it is raised. Also, use a context manager when opening files, it makes for simpler code.

with open(hostsFile, 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        line = line.strip()
        if not line:
            continue

        epoch = str(time.time())

        try:
            conn = urllib.urlopen(line)
            print epoch + ": Connection successful, status code for " + line + " is " + str(conn.code) + "\n"
        except IOError:
            print epoch + ": Connection unsuccessful, unable to connect to server, potential routing issues\n"

Answer 2

You need to handle exception raised by urllib.urlopen(line), something like this.

try:
    f = file(hostsFile)
    while True:
        line = f.readline().strip()
        epoch = time.time()
        epoch = str(epoch)
        if len(line) == 0:
            break
        try:
           conn = urllib.urlopen(line)
        except IOError:
           print "Exception occured"
           pass
except IOError:
    epoch = time.time()
    epoch = str(epoch)
    print epoch + ": Connection unsuccessful, unable to connect to server, potential routing issues\n"
    sys.exit()
else:
    f.close()

Answer 3

You could try catching the exception inside the while loop as something like this.

try:
    f = file(hostsFile)
    while True:
        line = f.readline().strip()
        epoch = time.time()
        epoch = str(epoch)
        if len(line) == 0:
            break
        try:
            conn = urllib.urlopen(line)
            print epoch + ": Connection successful, status code for " + line + " is " + str(conn.code) + "\n"
        except:
            epoch = time.time()
            epoch = str(epoch)
            print epoch + ": Connection unsuccessful, unable to connect to server, potential routing issues\n"
except IOError:
    pass
else:
    f.close()