I have some a list comprehension in Python in which each iteration can throw an exception. For instance, if I have: eggs = (1,3,0,3,2) [1/egg for egg in eggs] I'll get a ZeroDivisionError exception in the 3rd element. How can I handle this exception and continue execution of the list comprehension? The only way I can think of is to use a helper function: def spam(egg): try: return 1/egg except ZeroDivisionError: # handle division by zero error # leave empty for now pass But this looks a bit cumbersome to me. Is there a better way to do this in Python? Note: This is a simple example (see "for instance" above) that I contrived because my real example requires some context. I'm not interested in avoiding divide by zero errors but in handling exceptions in a list comprehension. Continue reading...
