How to log error to file, and not fail on exception

Question

I am downloading a file from the net, and it fails even though I am doing:

for p in query:

try:

except IOError as e:
   print e;

If th

Answer 1

This catches everything. But it is much, much better to catch the exact exception. python <= 2.7

while True:
  try:
    doStuff()
  except Exception, e:
    f = open('log.txt', 'w')
    f.write('An exceptional thing happed - %s' % e)
    f.close()