How to write exception handling for VK API Error 18 "User was deleted or banned" error?

Question

Python

Here is the code (using the vk_requests library) trying to get the IDs of users' friends from the list of ids:

all_ids = list()
for id_ in tqdm(ids):
    counts = api.friends.get(user_id=id_, count=0)['count']  # look at mount of friends
    cycle = min(10, ceil(counts/1000))  # create var with counter which define number of cycles  
    
    for i in range(cycle):
        shift = 0 # var for offset
        friends = api.friends.get(user_id=id_, offset=shift, count=1000)['items']  # get the 1000 friends 
        for friend in friends:
            all_ids.append(friend)

Gives an error message

VkAPIError: error_code=18,message='User was deleted or banned',request_params={'method': 'friends.get', 'oauth': '1', 'v': '5.92', 'user_id': ' 11475787', 'count': '0'}

How to write an exception for this error? If it's not difficult for you, explain like an idiot, thanks.

Answer 1

try except