# Script failing despite being within a try/except

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**Created:** [December 17, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/script-failing-despite-being-within-a-try-except/30757 "2019-12-17T08:16:12Z")\
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Python's Exception class is not the same thing as java.lang.Exception. You'll need a separate except clause for it. Something like this:

> [@Catch IOException?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/catch-ioexception/18612/3):
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> Consider using two except blocks, as jython’s standard Exception won’t catch pure java exceptions. Like so: import java.lang.Exception try: # something something something except Exception, e: # jython exception except java.lang.Exception, e: # java exception

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