Exceptions

The way a running program signals that something went wrong, so that code can catch the problem and carry on, or stop with a clear message instead of carrying on with nonsense.

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You can catch the specific exceptions you expect with try and except (with else and finally), raise your own when a function gets a value it can't use, and follow an exception up through the calls that were running.

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You can catch the specific exceptions you expect with try and except (with else and finally), raise your own when a function gets a value it can't use, and follow an exception up through the calls that were running.
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Type conversionThe first exception most programs meet is int() refusing text that isn't a number.Functions in codeAn exception travels from the function that raises it up through the functions that called it.

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