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. . . I have a list of tables to query. Problem is, the list is supplied by someone else and may contain errors, meaning it may direct the script to query a table that does not exist.

Why not pre-process the list of tables you are given? Then, your script only has to worry about good tables, because you've already removed the bad tables.

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