Alternative to try: something(), except: pass

Here is my code, it takes 2 input parameters, and asks the user to re-input until the input isn’t 1 or 2.

def inputParams(x,y):
    while True:
        try:
            x = int(input(y))
            if x == 1 or x == 2:
                return x
            else:
                print("Invalid Input")
                inputParams(x, y)
        except ValueError:
            pass

It works perfectly fine, but as I have heard using

try: 
    something()
except:
    pass

is a bad habit, I want to know if there is an alternative solution to this.

>Solution :

Skip the recursion, and use the ValueError to continue the loop before checking the integer value.

def inputParam(prompt):
    while True:
        x = input(prompt)
        try:
            n = int(x)
        except ValueError:
            print("Invalid integer input")
            continue

        if n == 1 or n == 2:
            return n

        print("Enter 1 or 2")