IOError and Try Again to loop the loop.

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The Danny Bos wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> I'm running a py script that simply grabs an image, creates a
> thumbnail and uploads it to s3. I'm simply logging into ssh and
> running the script through Terminal. It works fine, but gives me an
> IOError every now and then.
> 
> I was wondering if I can catch this error and just get the script to
> start again?
> I mean, in Terminal it dies anyway, so I have to start it again by
> hand, which is a pain as it dies so sporadically. Can I automate this
> error, catch it and just get it to restart the loop?
> 
> Thanks for your time and energy,
> 
Exceptions can be caught. You could do something like this:

     while True:
         try:
             do_something()
             break
         except IOError:
             pass