Handling Exceptions

The simplest way to handle exceptions is with a "try-except" block:

   1 (x,y) = (5,0)
   2 try:
   3   z = x/y
   4 except ZeroDivisionError:
   5   print "divide by zero"

If you wanted to examine the exception from code, you could have:

   1 (x,y) = (5,0)
   2 try:
   3   z = x/y
   4 except ZeroDivisionError, e:
   5   z = e # representation: "<exceptions.ZeroDivisionError instance at 0x817426c>"
   6 print z # output: "integer division or modulo by zero"

To Write About...

Give example of IOError, and interpreting the IOError code.

Give example of multiple excepts. Handling multiple excepts in one line.

Catch-all "Exception" exception handling. (Note: JohannesGijsbers says this is bad. We should have a note about why it's bad, next to how to do it.)

Show how to use "else" and "finally".

Show how to continue with a "raise".

See Also:

WritingExceptionClasses, TracebackModule, CoupleLeapingWithLooking