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I finally figured out why my Python script kept crashing after 3 hours
Was trying to make a simple web scraper to pull data from a local news site for a project. The problem was a missing 'try-except' block that didn't handle when a page element was empty, so it just stopped after about 500 pages. Took me like 2 days to spot it because the error message wasn't clear at all. Has anyone else run into weird silent fails with BeautifulSoup?
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logansullivan4d ago
Why are you even using try-except blocks for that? Just write cleaner code that checks for empty elements before you try to use them. That's basic logic, not an error handling problem.
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