try: except: not working

Question

So I\'m running into a problem where the try: except: mechanism doesn\'t seem to be working correctly in python.

Here are the contents of my two files.

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Answer 1

The main python program is always imported as the module __main__.

When you import pytest2, it doesn't reuse the existing module because the originally imported module has the name __main__ not pytest2. The result is that pytest1 is run multiple times generating multiple exception classes. __main__.MyError and pytest1.MyError You end up throwing one and trying to catch the other.

So, don't try to import your main module from other modules.