About catching ANY exception

Question

How can I write a try/except block that catches all exceptions?

Answer 1

To catch all possible exceptions, catch BaseException. It's on top of the Exception hierarchy:

Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/exceptions.html#exception-hierarchy

Python 2.7: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/exceptions.html#exception-hierarchy

try:
    something()
except BaseException as error:
    print('An exception occurred: {}'.format(error))

But as other people mentioned, you would usually not need this, only for specific cases.