<s>[INST] Try/Except in Python: How do you properly ignore Exceptions? When you just want to do a try-except without handling the exception, how do you do it in Python?
Is the following the right way to do it?
try :
    shutil.rmtree ( path )
except :
    pass

 [/INST] try:
  doSomething()
except: 
  pass

or
try:
  doSomething()
except Exception: 
  pass

The difference is, that the first one will also catch KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit and stuff like that, which are derived directly from exceptions.BaseException, not exceptions.Exception. See documentation for details:

try statement — http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#try
exceptions — http://docs.python.org/library/exceptions

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