Catch multiple exception types using a tuple, not with or operator.

Using or in exception handler is valid Python insofar as the python parser does not complain, but using or to specify multiple exception classes does not do what you think it should. Take this code as example:

try:
    foo()
except ValueError or TypeError:
    pass

This will only catch ValueError. TypeError will not be caught because Python is treating the ValueError or TypeError as a binary comparison to evaluate rather than as a list of exception classes to catch. Python evaluates ValueError or TypeError to ValueError because ValueError is truthy.

To have Python catch multiple exception types instead specify the multiple types as a tuple:

try:
    foo()
except (ValueError, TypeError):
    pass