python expceptions code example

Example 1: python exception list

AssertionError			#Raised when assert statement fails.
AttributeError			#Raised when attribute assignment or reference fails.
EOFError				#Raised when the input() functions hits end-of-file condition.
FloatingPointError		#Raised when a floating point operation fails.
GeneratorExit			#Raise when a generator's close() method is called.
ImportError				#Raised when the imported module is not found.
IndexError				#Raised when index of a sequence is out of range.
KeyError				#Raised when a key is not found in a dictionary.
KeyboardInterrupt		#Raised when the user hits interrupt key (Ctrl+c or delete).
MemoryError				#Raised when an operation runs out of memory.
NameError				#Raised when a variable is not found in local or global scope.
NotImplementedError		#Raised by abstract methods.
OSError					#Raised when system operation causes system related error.
OverflowError			#Raised when result of an arithmetic operation is too large to be represented.
ReferenceError			#Raised when a weak reference proxy is used to access a garbage collected referent.
RuntimeError			#Raised when an error does not fall under any other category.
StopIteration			#Raised by next() function to indicate that there is no further item to be returned by iterator.
SyntaxError				#Raised by parser when syntax error is encountered.
IndentationError		#Raised when there is incorrect indentation.
TabError				#Raised when indentation consists of inconsistent tabs and spaces.
SystemError				#Raised when interpreter detects internal error.
SystemExit				#Raised by sys.exit() function.
TypeError				#Raised when a function or operation is applied to an object of incorrect type.
UnboundLocalError		#Raised when a reference is made to a local variable in a function or method, but no value has been bound to that variable.
UnicodeError			#Raised when a Unicode-related encoding or decoding error occurs.
UnicodeEncodeError		#Raised when a Unicode-related error occurs during encoding.
UnicodeDecodeError		#Raised when a Unicode-related error occurs during decoding.
UnicodeTranslateError	#Raised when a Unicode-related error occurs during translating.
ValueError				#Raised when a function gets argument of correct type but improper value.
ZeroDivisionError		#Raised when second operand of division or modulo operation is zero.

Example 2: 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'