I often find myself using "except Exception", while I don't like it, I cannot find another way.
For instance when making an HTTP request. The requests library can throw thousands of different errors (SSLError, BrokenPipe, socket errors, errors from urllib, errors from requests itself...).
As far as I know, it is the only choice if you want to know if a request succeeded or not so you can deal with it without your view returning a 500.
I would really appreciate if someone has another solution to this.
For instance when making an HTTP request. The requests library can throw thousands of different errors (SSLError, BrokenPipe, socket errors, errors from urllib, errors from requests itself...).
As far as I know, it is the only choice if you want to know if a request succeeded or not so you can deal with it without your view returning a 500.
I would really appreciate if someone has another solution to this.