Detailed except

You can catch certain types of errors using the except keyword.

There are moments when you need to catch certain errors and handle them. For example, you need to handle the TypeError, but executing raises the ZeroDivisionError. If you handle ZeroDivisionError like the TypeError - it is a bug:


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def division(a, b):
    try:
        if not isinstance(a, (int, float)):
            raise TypeError
        if not isinstance(b, (int, float)):
            raise TypeError

        return a / b

    except:
        print("The received agruments is not int/float.")

print(division(5, 0))

In the example above, the ZeroDivisionError was raised by the 5 / 0 expression. The except catch it and print the wrong message.

To catch the certain error, you should write the error name after the except keyword:


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def division(a, b):
    try:
        if not isinstance(a, (int, float)):
            raise TypeError
        if not isinstance(b, (int, float)):
            raise TypeError

        return a / b

    except TypeError:
        print("The received agruments is not int/float.")

print(division(5, 0))

Now, the except keyword not caught the ZeroDivisionError.

You can catch certain in the row by the multiply except usage:


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def division(a, b):
    try:
        if not isinstance(a, (int, float)):
            raise TypeError
        if not isinstance(b, (int, float)):
            raise TypeError

        return a / b

    except TypeError:
        print("The received agruments is not int/float.")

    except ZeroDivisionError:
        print("The ZeroDivisionError was caught")

print(division(5, 0))

Error info usage

You can save the error using the as keyword after the except and error type. You should name this error, and you can use it like the variable:


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try:
    1 / 0
except ZeroDivisionError as error:
    print("Caught error:", error)

In the example above, the caught error is saved into the error variable by the as keyword.

To catch any exception with the as keyword, you can use the Exception object:


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try:
#    1 / 0
    "15" + 12
except Exception as error:
    print("Error caught:", error)

You can add and remove comments in the example above to understand how it works.

Reraising

You can reraise the exception, which can be needed for specific cases. To reraise the exception, you should use the raise keyword without anything:


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try:
    "15" + 12
except TypeError:
    print("Saving logs in the file log.txt")  # Not implemented
    raise

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Section 3. Chapter 5