What type of exception should I use to avoid No exception type(s) specified

Question

I have a list with these values ['apple', 'banana', '10', 'oranges']

I want to iterate every element in the list and try to convert it into an int.

this is my code so far

lst = ['apple', 'banana', '10', 'oranges']

for i in lst:
    try:
        int_ele = int(i)
        print(int_ele)
    except:
        continue

Now this code works. But when I run pylint on this code I get this error

W0702: No exception type(s) specified (bare-except)

How should I get rid of this error?

You can consider switching to `with contextlib.suppress()` since it's cleaner anyways. — Mateen Ulhaq, Jun 26 '20 at 05:13
In this case, the only reasonable error is `ValueError`, so you can catch that via `except ValueError` instead. — Mateen Ulhaq, Jun 26 '20 at 05:14

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '20 at 05:15

2

You can do except Exception:, or you can do except ValueError:

answered Jun 26 '20 at 05:15

Vthechamp

2

``Exception`` will be very broad, ``ValueError`` should fit in there. – sushanth Jun 26 '20 at 05:26

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