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At the ‘predict’ & ‘run’ stages students work entirely with example code. They should inspect it carefully and write a prediction about what it will do.
They then run the code and compare the result to their prediction.
Concept | Explanation | Code |
---|---|---|
Attempt the code | Attempt to run the code. | try |
Catch errors | Only run the code if the try code from before creates an exception. | except |
Run if no errors | Runs the code only if there is no error | else |
Always run | Runs the code regardless of whether there is an error | finally |
Here is an example of the syntax.
# Tries to run the following code.
try:
print(name)
# If there is a `NameError`, run this code
except NameError:
print("The variable has not been assigned")
# If there is a `ValueError`, run this code
except ValueError:
print("You entered a non integer input")
# If there is any other type of error, run this code
except:
print("Something else went wrong")
# If there is no error, run this code
else:
print("Nothing went wrong")
# Run this code regardless of whether there was an error.
finally:
print("The try except has finished")
When a program runs and encounters an error, Python will generate an exception and crash. Exception handling allows us to work with these exceptions to help prevent crashes.
There are lots of built in Python exceptions. These exercises will focus on exceptions to handle undefined variables and input of the wrong data type.
Exception handling uses very similar syntax to if…else statements, just with the key commands try and except.