Most of the exceptions inherit from RequestException or ConnectionError (which itself inherits from RequestException). Python checks the exceptions in the order you write them in the script. If you want to catch the exceptions individually, put leaf-most exceptions first, followed by ConnectionError and ending with RequestException. Or, just catch RequestException which will catch all of them.

I wrote a decorator that will handle the requests.exception.RequestException

def handle_reqexcept(func):
    def handle(*args, **kw):
        try:
            return func(*args, **kw)
        except requests.exceptions.RequestException:
            return
    return handle

The actual function i wrote is:

def handle_reqexcept(func):
    '''
    This decorator handles request.excptions
    '''
    @wraps(func)
    def handle(*args, **kw):
        '''
        Handle RequestException
        '''
        try:
            return func(*args, **kw)
        except requests.exceptions.RequestException as error:
            LOGGER.log_error(error)
    return handle