Getting an "Error" for using a bare Except - Python

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I get a sort of Error Messagge that I should not use a "bare Except ..." I have to check the 'line of the text file' (saved in raw_results ...) in which the third charachter is a dot ('.'). Is there another way avoiding to use Try ... Except ?

Thx for help

with open(file_to_read, 'r') as fi:
    raw_results = fi.readlines()

date_of_game = []
home_team = []
away_team = []
home_team_goals = []
away_team_goals = []

for i in range(len(raw_results)):
    try:
        if raw_results[i][2] == '.':
            date_of_game.append(raw_results[i][:5])
            if raw_results[i + 1] != "A Tav.":
                home_team.append(raw_results[i + 1].strip('\n'))
                away_team.append(raw_results[i + 2].strip('\n'))
                home_team_goals.append(raw_results[i + 3].strip('\n'))
                away_team_goals.append(raw_results[i + 4].strip('\n'))
            else:
                home_team.append(raw_results[i + 2].strip('\n'))
                away_team.append(raw_results[i + 3].strip('\n'))
                home_team_goals.append(raw_results[i + 4].strip('\n'))
                away_team_goals.append(raw_results[i + 5].strip('\n'))
    except:
        ''' ... do nothing '''

if the except is doing nothing , why are you adding it , its purpose is debugging and catching exceptions , can you explain your reasoning for adding it ? — Ran A
– Ran A, Commented Jul 6, 2022 at 16:14
If I do not put the Except it does not work - I get a SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing — Al Pan
– Al Pan, Commented Jul 6, 2022 at 16:15
i needed why using the try/except in the first place for your example — Ran A
– Ran A, Commented Jul 6, 2022 at 16:18
Without putting a Try/Except I get : if raw_results[i][2] == '.': IndexError: string index out of range — Al Pan
– Al Pan, Commented Jul 6, 2022 at 16:18

Ran A · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-06 16:22:38Z

1

to solve the bare exception error: you can add

except Exception as error :
   print(error)
   continue

to continue it's looping

answered Jul 6, 2022 at 16:22

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Al Pan Over a year ago

The looping works in every case, but now i get "string index out of range"

Ran A Over a year ago

i believe it's from raw_results[i + 5] for example if i = len(draw_results)-1 so you' re out of the range of the data

Ran A Over a year ago

you can correct by limiting your range to range(len(raw_results)-6)

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