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"