ParseError Not Being Caught With Except

Question

I'm newish to coding and I've ran into a problem that I haven't been able to find a solution to.

I have some code that prompts the user to pick a directory and an XML file that it will parse and say whether the XML file is well-formed or not.

However, when the XML is malformed, I get an error and the program stops.

What I expect to happen is that the except will catch the parse error.

When I'm debugging, I can continue past the error and the rest of the code executes.

Here is the error:

Exception has occurred: ParseError
mismatched tag: line 306, column 14
  File "C:\Users\user\project\SimpleXMLParseExcept.py", line 10, in <module>
    tree = ET.parse(filepath)
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: mismatched tag: line 306, column 14

Here is my code:

import os
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

directory = input("Enter the directory path: ")
filename = input("Enter the file name in the directory: ")

filepath = os.path.join(directory, filename)

try:
    tree = ET.parse(filepath)
    print(f"{filename} is a well-formed XML.")
except ET.ParseError as e:
    print(f"{filename} is not a well-formed XML: {e}")
    # Add a print statement to see if the exception is being caught
    print("Exception caught by the try-except block.")