How to print the full traceback without halting the program

Question

I'm writing a program that parses 10 websites, locates data files, saves the files, and then parses them to make data that can be readily used in the NumPy library. 

I initially made this program to handle errors like this:

try:
    do_stuff()
except:
    pass

But now I want to log errors:

try:
    do_stuff()
except Exception, err:
    print Exception, err

What I want is to print the exact same lines printed when the error triggers without the try-except intercepting the exception, but I don't want it to halt my program since it is nested in a series of for loops that I would like to see to completion.

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

When you don't want to halt your program on an error, you need to handle that error with a try/except:

try:
    do_something_that_might_error()
except Exception as error:
    handle_the_error(error)

To extract the full traceback, we'll use the traceback module from the standard library:

import traceback

And to create a decently complicated stacktrace to demonstrate that we get the full stacktrace:

def raise_error():
    raise RuntimeError('something bad happened!')

def do_something_that_might_error():
    raise_error()

Hope it helps!