How to get out of a try/except inside a while? [Python]

Question

I\'m trying this simple code, but the damn break doesn\'t work... what is wrong?

while True:
    for proxy in proxylist:
        try:
            h = urllib.urlo         


        

Answer 1

You can use a custom exception and then catch it:

exit_condition = False

try:

    <some code ...>

    if exit_conditon is True:
        raise UnboundLocalError('My exit condition was met. Leaving try block')

    <some code ...>

except UnboundLocalError, e:
    print 'Here I got out of try with message %s' % e.message
    pass

except Exception, e:
    print 'Here is my initial exception'

finally:
    print 'Here I do finally only if I want to'

Answer 2

You just break out of for loop -- not while loop:

running = True
while running:
    for proxy in proxylist:
        try:
            h = urllib.urlopen(website, proxies = {'http': proxy}).readlines()
            print 'worked %s' % proxy
            running = False
        except:
            print 'error %s' % proxy
print 'done'

Answer 3

You break out of the for loop only, so you never leave the while loop and restart iterating over the proxylist over and over again. Just omit the surrounding while loop, I actually don't understand why you enclosed the code in a while True in the first place.

Answer 4

break is breaking the innermost loop, which is the for loop in your case. To break from more than one loop you have few options:

1. Introduce a condition
2. Create a sub and use return

but in your case you actually don't need the outer while loop at all. Just remove it.