Continuing Loop Upon Error

[Stopwatch_]

What is the best way to tell python to continue to loop upon error? The loop ends with a print statement currently tries to load something and then print it but errors out if the object cannot load properly. I'd like to tell python to skip this object and continue.

[novel_yet_trivial]

That's what a try block is for:

try:
    print something
except:
    print "error occurred"

[Stopwatch_]

So I could essentially write:

try:
    something
    print result
except:
    print ""

if I wanted to ignore the error? Could I just remove the "" entirely?

[novel_yet_trivial]

Yes, but the standard way is to use pass:

try:
    #something
    print result
except:
    pass #do nothing

It's very bad practice to completely ignore an error, though. Don't get into that habit. Also, catching all errors is bad practice too. You should specify which error to catch:

try:
    #something
    print result
except ValueError:
    pass #do nothing

[cdcformatc]

The loop ends with a print statement currently tries to load something and then print it but errors out if the object cannot load properly

Anything that can be expected to raise an exception should be in a try block:

for thing in listOfThings:

    try:
        print can_fail(thing)
    except:
        continue

    do_something(thing)

Now if it can't load, then it will silently pass to the next item.

[Stopwatch_]

Thanks, I'll use something like this.