How Handle Genie Exceptions

[AJ Cruz]

New to pyATS & Genie and kinda new to Python, I feel like I'm missing something very basic here but I can't figure out how to handle exceptions with Genie.

I'm dumping the mac table for specific vlans, but when I dump the table for a vlan with no mac entries my script throws this exception:

genie.metaparser.util.exceptions.SchemaEmptyParserError: Parser Output is empty

I can't figure out how to ignore this error and continue the script.

I tried:

try:
  <code>
except SchemaEmptyParserError as e:
  <handler>

as well as the full genie.metaparser.util.exceptions.SchemaEmptyParserError

But neither works.

[AJ Cruz · Accepted solution]

Nevermind that, I realized I had an error somewhere else when I tried to do "except Exception as e"

except Exception as e:
            if 'Parser Output is empty' in str(e):
                print(e)
            else:
                print('FATAL ERROR:')
                print(e)
                sys.exit()

seems to do the trick