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Python Exception Handling Explained

This document discusses exceptions in Python programming. It explains that there are two types of errors: syntax errors, which occur due to coding mistakes, and exceptions, which occur due to abnormalities during execution. Exceptions must be handled to prevent programs from terminating unexpectedly. The document provides the syntax for try-except blocks to catch and handle exceptions, including specific exceptions, optional else and finally blocks, and raising custom exceptions.

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Python Exception Handling Explained

This document discusses exceptions in Python programming. It explains that there are two types of errors: syntax errors, which occur due to coding mistakes, and exceptions, which occur due to abnormalities during execution. Exceptions must be handled to prevent programs from terminating unexpectedly. The document provides the syntax for try-except blocks to catch and handle exceptions, including specific exceptions, optional else and finally blocks, and raising custom exceptions.

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Python Programming

– Exceptions
Networking for Software Developer
Narendra Pershad
Agenda

• Errors

• What are exceptions?

• Why is it necessary?

• Examples
Errors

• Errors prevents your program must running as expected (or as you hope)

• There are basically two kinds of errors that you might get

• Syntax Errors
• Normally comes from coding mistakes

• Exceptions
• Normally come from some abnormalities in execution
Syntax Errors

• Also called parsing errors.

• It is the most common type of error.

• Especially if you are now learning the language.

• The parser tokenizes the source code and then parses according to the grammar of the language.

• The parser prints the offending line with an arrow indicating the earliest point where the error was detected.

• This is not an issue for complied languages such C++, C, java and C# where all the syntax are caught before
the executable is built.
Exception

• Exception handling is a critical practice in building robust applications.

• Whenever something abnormal happens an exception object in


generated and raised.

• If you don’t handle the exception then the program will terminate.
Full Syntax
try:
pass #statements that may cause exception

except:
pass #processed if that is an exception

else: #optional
pass #processed if that is no exception

finally: #optional
pass #guarantee to be processed even if there is no
exception
Simple Syntax
try:

file = open('test.txt', 'rb') #this can potentially raise an exception

except Exception as e: #this will catch all errors

print(f'Error {e} has occurred')


Simple Syntax

try:

file = open('test.txt', 'rb')

except ( IOError, EOFError ) as e: #this will catch only these errors

print(f'Error {e} has occurred')


Simple Syntax
try:

file = class('test.txt', 'rb')

except EOFError as e: #catching specific error

print(f'Error {e} has occurred')

except IOError as e: #this will catch only this error

print(f'Error {e} has occurred')


Raising Exception

name = input('Please enter your name: ‘)

try:

if name == 'Narendra’:
raise Exception('Narendra is evil!’) #raise an exception

else:
print(f'Hello {name}')

except Exception as e:
print(e)
Summary
• There are two kinds of errors that a user might encounter

• Syntax Errors

• Caused by the programmers not following the grammar of the language

• These are caught by the parser

• Exceptions

• Happens when the control flow is disrupted

• These are caught by the runtime if no handled by the programmer

• Exception handling is critical to writing robust code

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