How to define a name for an exception in python?

July 19, 2022

I`m trying to handle the exception ‘ProfileNotExistsException’ and the code is as follows:

    try:
        profile = instaloader.Profile.from_username(bot.context, followees[i])
        #Other statements
    except ProfileNotExistsException:
        print('exception')

But This NameError is occurring.

NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [11], in <cell line: 2>()
      6     allfolloweesDataList.append((profile.userid,profile.username,profile.full_name,profile.followers,profile.followees,profile.is_verified,profile.biography,profile.external_url))
      7     print(i,end=',')
----> 8 except ProfileNotExistsException:
      9     print('exception')

NameError: name 'ProfileNotExistsException' is not defined

How can I define a name for an exception like this?

>Solution :

Looking at the source code for the instaloader package, I believe this is what you are looking for:

from instaloader.exceptions import ProfileNotExistsException

try:
    profile = instaloader.Profile.from_username(bot.context, followees[i])
    ...
except ProfileNotExistsException:
    print('exception')