get exception type python code example

Example 1: print type of exception python

try:
    someFunction()
except Exception as ex:
    template = "An exception of type {0} occurred. Arguments:\n{1!r}"
    message = template.format(type(ex).__name__, ex.args)
    print (message)

Example 2: python exception

try:
   # Code to test / execute
   print('Test')
except (SyntaxError, IndexError) as E:  # specific exceptions
   # Code in case of SyntaxError for example
   print('Synthax or index error !')
except :
   # Code for any other exception
   print('Other error !')
else:
   # Code if no exception caught
   print('No error')
finally:
   # Code executed after try block (success) or any exception (ie everytime)
   print('Done')

# This code is out of try / catch bloc
print('Anything else')

Example 3: exception types python

BaseException
   ] SystemExit
   ] KeyboardInterrupt
   ] GeneratorExit
   ] Exception
        ] StopIteration
        ] StopAsyncIteration
        ] ArithmeticError
        |    ] FloatingPointError
        |    ] OverflowError
        |    ] ZeroDivisionError
        ] AssertionError
        ] AttributeError
        ] BufferError
        ] EOFError
        ] ImportError
        |    ] ModuleNotFoundError
        ] LookupError
        |    ] IndexError
        |    ] KeyError
        ] MemoryError
        ] NameError
        |    ] UnboundLocalError
        ] OSError
        |    ] BlockingIOError
        |    ] ChildProcessError
        |    ] ConnectionError
        |    |    ] BrokenPipeError
        |    |    ] ConnectionAbortedError
        |    |    ] ConnectionRefusedError
        |    |    ] ConnectionResetError
        |    ] FileExistsError
        |    ] FileNotFoundError
        |    ] InterruptedError
        |    ] IsADirectoryError
        |    ] NotADirectoryError
        |    ] PermissionError
        |    ] ProcessLookupError
        |    ] TimeoutError
        ] ReferenceError
        ] RuntimeError
        |    ] NotImplementedError
        |    ] RecursionError
        ] SyntaxError
        |    ] IndentationError
        |         ] TabError
        ] SystemError
        ] TypeError
        ] ValueError
        |    ] UnicodeError
        |         ] UnicodeDecodeError
        |         ] UnicodeEncodeError
        |         ] UnicodeTranslateError
        ] Warning
             ] DeprecationWarning
             ] PendingDeprecationWarning
             ] RuntimeWarning
             ] SyntaxWarning
             ] UserWarning
             ] FutureWarning
             ] ImportWarning
             ] UnicodeWarning
             ] BytesWarning
             ] ResourceWarning

Example 4: how to use except statement in python

>>> def divide(x, y):
...     try:
...         result = x / y
...     except ZeroDivisionError:
...         print("division by zero!")
...     else:
...         print("result is", result)
...     finally:
...         print("executing finally clause")
...
>>> divide(2, 1)
result is 2.0
executing finally clause
>>> divide(2, 0)
division by zero!
executing finally clause
>>> divide("2", "1")
executing finally clause
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in divide
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'str'

Example 5: python exception

try:
  # code block
except ValueError as ve:
  print(ve)

Example 6: python defualt error handler

import sys
def my_except_hook(exctype, value, traceback):
    if exctype == KeyboardInterrupt:
        print "Handler code goes here"
    else:
        sys.__excepthook__(exctype, value, traceback)
sys.excepthook = my_except_hook