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Learn Python in 7 Days

You're reading from   Learn Python in 7 Days Begin your journey with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288386
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Raj Mohit Raj
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Bhaskar N. Das Bhaskar N. Das
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Type Variables and Operators 3. Strings 4. Lists 5. Dictionary 6. Control Statements and Loops 7. Function and Scope of Variable 8. Modules and Packages 9. File Handling and Exceptions 10. Collections 11. Class and Objects

Exceptions


Consider you have created a program calc.py and that it is running successfully. After some time, a third person edits the program calc.py. While executing the program, the interpreter throws some error. Due to the error, the whole program stops working. How can we avoid this situation, where, if any error occurs, then the whole program execution does not suffer?

The answer is simple: just use exception handling. Errors detected during execution are called exceptions. In the next section, you will see the example in detail, where we will see how to use exception handling with the try...except clause. 

The try statement with an except clause

In this section, you will see how to use the try...except block to handle the exceptions. Let's understand the usage of the try...except block with examples.

Consider the following program:

def sum1(a,b):
            c = a+b
            return c
print sum1(10,0)

Consider that a third person edits the program calc.py; the full program is shown here...

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