title: Bypass error and continue code
body: <p>This was a simple problem I was having earlier. Essentially, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/574730/python-how-to-ignore-an-exception-and-proceed">solutions like this</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/730764/try-except-in-python-how-to-properly-ignore-exceptions?lq=1">this</a> to "ignoring" an exception really don't. Even if they don't crash python anymore, they still stop whatever code was in the initial try clause.</p>
  
  <pre><code>try:
      assert False
      print "hello"
  except AssertionError:
      pass
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This code will <em>not</em> print "hello", but rather skip over it, going to the pass. My question is, is there an easy way to truly ignore this in Python 2.7? I read about some things going on in 3.4 to make this easier, but I'd rather stay with python 2.7.</p>