Python clean way to wrap individual statements in a try except block

Question

I\'m currently doing some Python automation of Excel with com. It\'s fully functional, and does what I want, but I\'ve discovered something surprising. Sometimes, some of th

Answer 1

You can zip arguments from three list, and do the following:

for border, attr, value in myArgs:
    while True:
        i = 0
        try:
            setattr(excel.Selection.Borders(border), attr, value) 
        except:
            if i>100:
                break
        else:
            break

If your exceptions are trully random, this will try until success (with a limit of 100 tries). I don't recommend this.