Visual Studio: how to ignore known exceptions when debugging? - django

Question

I'm debugging with Visual Studio Code Version 1.34.
I've setup a breakpoint that is not reached because of exceptions that are not critical.
How do I stop that behaviur? I'm coping the configuration file for debugging with Django in VSC.
launch.json
{
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"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"type": "extensionHost",
"request": "launch",
"name": "Launch Extension",
"runtimeExecutable": "${execPath}",
"args": [
"--extensionDevelopmentPath=${workspaceFolder}"
],
"outFiles": [
"${workspaceFolder}/out/**/*.js"
],
"preLaunchTask": "npm"
},
{
"name": "Python: Django",
"type": "python",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${workspaceFolder}\\manage.py",
"args": [
"runserver",
"--noreload",
"--nothreading"
],
"django": true
}
]
}

Answer 1

In python you can use a try and except
If you know the exception that is being thrown:
try:
with open('file.txt') as file:
read_data = file.read()
except FileNotFoundError as fnf_error:
print(fnf_error)
print('this will still be executed')
If you don't know what type of exception is thrown:
try:
function_that_throws()
except:
print('caught exception')
print('this is still executed')