How do you catch the duplicate id error when using...

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I use the following line to add langchain documents to a chroma database: Chroma.from_documents(docs, embeddings, ids=ids, persist_directory='db') when ids are duplicates, I get this error: chromadb.errors.IDAlreadyExistsError how do I catch the error? (duplicate ids are expected - I expect Chorma to not add them) I've tried identifying the error in langchain documentation. Not sure how to catch it.

Originally asked by Suibhne on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Here's an example of how you can handle exceptions raised by Chroma.from_documents() - try: Chroma.from_documents(docs, embeddings, ids=ids, persist_directory='db') except chromadb.errors.IDAlreadyExistsError as id_error: print(f"this is an error message => {id_error}") For detailed explanation for handling exceptions in Python, checkout the Python Exception Handling docs

Full answer by Sameer Kumar: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/76863365 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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