Is there a way to do try, except over ConnectHandler.enable()?

[hfakoor222]

I want to skip over enable when the "secret" is not provided in a list of devices, or incase the secret changes and I am not able to go into enable mode.

for example I tried this code:

exceptions = (netmiko.NetmikoAuthenticationException, netmiko.ReadException, netmiko.ReadTimeout, netmiko.NetmikoTimeoutException, netmiko.exceptions.SSHException)

ConnectHandler = netmiko.ConnectHandler(
device_type=device_type,
host=ip,
username=username,
password=password,
port=22,
secret=data["secret"] if "secret" in data else False
)
if ConnectHandler:
try:
ConnectHandler.enable()
except exceptions as e:
print("Could not connect to {}".format(ip))

When I tested this without a provided secret in my list, it returns an error. Note in the code above the ConnectHandler parses the info with or without a secret, now I just need to be able to skip over .enable() when it doesn't work.

here is the traceback:

raceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2023.1\plugins\python-ce\helpers\pydev\pydevconsole.py", line 364, in runcode
coro = func()
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users*\Desktop*\Python_Scripting\OSPF_Base_Script\Connect_Handler.py", line 43, in connect_parser
ConnectHandler.enable()
File "C:\Users*\Desktop*\Python_Scripting\OSPF_Base_Script\venv\lib\site-packages\netmiko\cisco_base_connection.py", line 25, in enable
return super().enable(
File "C:\Users*\Desktop*\Python_Scripting\OSPF_Base_Script\venv\lib\site-packages\netmiko\base_connection.py", line 1934, in enable
self.write_channel(self.normalize_cmd(self.secret))
File "C:\Users*\Desktop*\Python_Scripting\OSPF_Base_Script\venv\lib\site-packages\netmiko\base_connection.py", line 1879, in normalize_cmd
command = command.rstrip()
AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'rstrip'